The farm-houses around here are in ruins. The clumps of trees, alternated with fields, which skirt the road, all bear marks of heavy shelling. Shelters will be noticed all along the road. Leave on the right the “Chemin Vicinal” (poor condition), leading to Etrepilly, which the Americans attacked and captured on July 20, 1918.
At about 2-1/2 miles from the fork where the tourist left the N. 3, Hill 190 becomes plainly visible on the right. It is a bare eminence, full of shell holes. The panorama on pages 50, 51 was taken from there.
(To reach Hill 190, leave the car at “milestone” No. 4, where the road, at the edge of a small wood, begins to descend. After following a hawthorn hedge for about five minutes the top of the hill will be reached.)
VISIT TO BELLEAU WOOD (28 miles).