Merida, Yucatan 
Jamuary 14, 1895. 
My dear Mr. McGee: 
I am just in Merida over night, having come up from 
Uxmal. In the morning we are off for Inzamal 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-volans was also a novel experience. The 
ore are limestone beds of awful ruggedness and the vehicle is 
a boxbed on two high heavy wheels drawn by 3 mules abreast. The 
volans and mules are marvels in having existed through the 50 
miles made that day. I bare 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. 
Everything, everywhere, is limestone, soft rather massive 
and full of fossils, hard to secure as the rock is friable or 
gnarled and brecciated. The formation is late tertiary I suppose. 
What I am coming to is to ask that if possible you send 
to EH. H. Thompson, Merida, Yucatan, some reports - The Annuals 
after the 9th, Bulletins, save Pillings, the quartos save VI and 
VII, as far as you can. 
Thompson is at work in Chichen - owns it, and deserves 
everything. 
Yours truly, 
W. H. HOLMES 
