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excavating has been done where the old cathedral was.  The narrow cobble street leading up to it, the door stops & ruined walls to either side the church itself like forum in Pompeii (on a small scale) remind you of that place & both perished as a result of volcanic activity.  The Museum is getting dingy and run down since Perrett died.  A very poor picture of him, and the various honors and society certificates are displayed on a table, but the personality of the director (and founder) and of the place is gone.  On the way we had to arrange for lunch at Morne Rouge & had to back track some miles from St. Pierre to eat it.  The ocean road over which we travelled 19 yrs ago appears to have had no attention since then, is now about as terrible an auto road as any I've ever travelled over.  The whole coast is dotted with fishing villages [[strikethrough]] each [[/strikethrough]] nestling to the hillside & between it & beach, with boats drawn up on beach in rows, and nets drying on high poles.  It's all the world like Riviera coast but without the picturesque red tiled roofs and [[?version]] of buildings.  Shortly after the [[?stop]] in Fort de France we visited the sulphur thermal baths a gloomy place as far as buildings are concerned but situated in a wild gorge.  Yes - the rain forest, mountain, valley scenery in wonderful