216 ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 



This trip has, I think, done me more good than any 

 other I 've taken. I have practically been out in the 

 open air ten hours a day during the past fortnight, 

 riding nearly the whole time from twenty to thirty miles 

 a day. The horses here have just the gait that suits 

 me, and I feel as strong 1 and touarh as an ox iust now. 

 I wish I could stay as I am now. I must manage when 

 I get home to get more exercise and shaking up." 



Cambridge, April 9, 1885. 



Here I am back again from the Islands of the Blessed 

 after a most delightful trip. I came across your tracks 

 at the Volcano House, and those of the Challenger 

 party. I spent three days up there and was loth to leave. 

 I worked very little, devoting myself to hard riding and 

 walking and seeing all I could. I managed, however, in 

 making the round of Oahu to look up the elevated coral 

 reefs and to study the reefs of Honolulu and of the 

 weather side of the island, also the seolian limestones of 

 Maui, which are most interesting and throw very con- 

 siderable light on the elevated reefs of the extremity of 

 Oahu near Kahuka Point. I have not yet had a chance 

 to see what Dana had to say about them. 



On my way back I again came across your chirography 

 at the Hotel of the Grand Canon of the Colorado. I 

 hope you stopped at Flagstaff to see the cliff and cave 

 dwellings near the station. I had an interesting time 

 there and at Lacuna where I went to see the Acoma 

 Pueblo. I also put in a few days of antiquarian work at 

 Santa Fe, went to the San Juan ! and [undecipherable] 

 Pueblos, but they did not compare with the Acoma 



1 Of the Challenger staff. 



