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dian mounds, is thus assured of preservation, for many others are 
fast disappearing by the action of the rain and of the plough. 
- The Ruined Cities of Yucatdn.—Mr. E. H. Thompson, United 
States consul at Merida, Yucatan, has been making researches 
ical vegetation combined with faulty construction. The dirt and 
_ them as communal dwellings. Mr. Thompson rather inclines to 
ly to the statements of eminent archzologists that 
_ traces of such towns exist, he quotes the case of Labna, which is 
rarely visited, even by the nativesthemselves. The whole region 
for leagues around this ruin is dotted with low mounds and small, 
rectangular terraces, some hardly raised above the surrounding 
“Yel, While others are of greater altitude, though none are so 
T as the mounds which support the ruins. Now, asks Mr. 
4 ompson, “if these do not mark the sites of what were once 
d and in such situations as to forbid the idea that they were 
‘Sites of additional temples. Mr. Thompson is continuing his 
locali ons of Labna, which promise to give good results, as the 
alty has been almost entirely undisturbed. 
but, being built of perishable materials, have entirely disappeared. 
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