A trip up the leeward trail [53] to the summit of the volcano gives one a good idea of the advance which vegetation is making and of other changes which have taken place since the eruption devastated this section of the mountain. The trail now ascends the bottom of the Trespé, or Dry Walliton, Valley for a mile to a point 410 feet by aneroid above the sea. Here begins a ravine a steep zigzag path up the bordering wall of the gorge, which is 300 feet high, through one of the new “Pasant pro- prictor” plantations recently estab- lished in the island under the encour- agement of the Colonial Government. Attaining the edge of the gorge wall 300 feet above the bottom of the valley at the foot of the trail the trail attains