Progreso, the port of Merida, in Yucatan, from which it is 25 miles N. by two lines of railway. It stands on an open bay, exposed to every wind, and is one of the worst harbours in the world; but it has a very large export trade in henequen.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 437
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