Produced by Julia Miller, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) RAMBLES in YUCATAN [Illustration: MOON LIGHT, UXMAL RUINS.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RAMBLES in YUCATAN INCLUDING A VISIT TO THE REMARKABLE RUINS OF CHI-CHEN, Kahbah, ZAYI, UXMAL &c. [Illustration: SISAL.] BY B. M. NORMAN. NEW•YORK, J. & H. G. LANGLEY, 57 CHATHAM STREET. MDCCCXLIII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RAMBLES in YUCATAN; OR, NOTES OF TRAVEL THROUGH THE PENINSULA, INCLUDING A VISIT TO THE REMARKABLE RUINS OF CHI-CHEN, Kahbah, ZAYI, AND UXMAL. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. BY B. M. NORMAN. SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK: J. & H. G. LANGLEY, 57 CHATHAM STREET. PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT, & CO. NEW ORLEANS: NORMAN, STEEL, & CO. MDCCCXLIII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, BY J. & H. G. LANGLEY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY REDFIELD AND SAVAGE, 13 Chambers street, N. Y. R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER, 112 FULTON ST. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. ------- To those who intend to bestow upon the following pages the honor of a perusal, it may seem almost supererogatory for the author to mention, that it has formed no part of his purpose to prepare a book which should owe its leading interest to its literary merits. His life has been necessarily more devoted to the dissemination of books than to the study of their internal fabrication; he has had but slender opportunities for the cultivation of letters, and little of the preparation requisite for a task, to the results of which he now solicits the candid consideration of the public.