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Field Columbian Museum 
Chicago. 
Merida, Yucatan 
Jan. 14th, 1894 
My dear Mr. McGee: 
I am just in Merida over night having come up from Uxmal. 
In the morning we are off for Izamal and Chichen Itza. The 
Uxmal ruins are superb representing a culture and people 
the more remarkable the closer we approach them. The ride 
of 25 miles in a v plan s was also a novel experience. The 
roads are limestone beds of awful ruggedness and the vehicle 
is a box bed on two high, heavy wheels drawn by 5 mules 
abreast. The volans and mules are marvels in having existed 
through the 50 miles made that day. I have taken the volans 
as my fetish. We have had two "northers” on the Gulf of 
Mexico but that volans ride was equal to ten "northers" tied 
in knots. 
Wvery thing, everywhere is limestone,- soft rather massive 
and full of fossils, hard to secure as the rook Is friable or 
gnarled and brecciated. The formation Is late tertiary I 
suppos e . 
What I am coming to is to ask that if possible you send 
to E. H. Thompson, Merida, Yucatan, some reports, --the Annuals 
after the 19th, Bulletins, save Fillings, the quartos save 
VI and VII, as far as you can. 
Thompson is at work on Chichen--owns it and deserves 
everything. 
Yours truly. 
/s/ W.H. Holmes 
