DOCUMENT NO. 91 Invertebrate Paleontology Yale Peabody Museum H.H. WALES. LADO SUR DE LA ALAMEDA. CALLE DE LA ARTILLERIA No. 6. Hotel Internacional S.L.P. San Luis Potosi de 1902 on the Mexican Central This evening I returned from the round trip to Tampico. What two grand days have been today and yesterday. The latter day was one of surprises but to day one of more understanding, therefore I will begin an account of the scenery and the geology from Tampico towards San Luis Potosi. The little sea port town of Tampico is situated on a low hill partly about fifty feet above the sea level. Our train starts away on this same or sea level at six in the morning. The day is warm and clear and the least exertion brings on perspiration, though the air from the sea gives one the feeling of some coolness. Certainly Tampico is not by far so hot as Vera Cruz and then for the town is rather cleaner and has a better class of people. As we proceed our have matter on each side of the track, the one on our left being a navigable river. Our train soon rises out of the sea level on to the one on which Tampico is built and which leads for the present into the "Eocene plain." On this low plain the vegetation is dense - a jungle - but not a tropical jungle such as I have read of. It is a mass of shrubs without any abundance of tall trees (trees that all are cut out along the rail road), many vines, and parasite plants but very little of the epiphytic or bromes. One sees no firs, no palms, but a few cacti are present, one like the maguey and another a sort of anemone form. In this jungle deer and turkeys are said to be present. This is also the cattle raising county of Mexico.