A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... bottoms or the new soils of any part of Texas . The country is , therefore , here in similar condi- tion to that of ... bottom we noticed many aquatic birds , and the browsing line under the dense mass of trees was almost as clean cut ...
... bottoms bears good cotton , and on the edge of the Angelina bottoms we saw a very heavy crop . The Angelina ferry is reached by a rude causeway , with bridges at intervals , some two or three miles in length , the only structure of the ...
... content to leave it an indefinite period upon the nearest river - bank , subject to the vague chances of a rise . TRINITY BOTTOM LANDS . On landing on the west side 90 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS . TRINITY RIVER NAVIGATION. ...
... bottom lands bordering the Trinity are among the richest of rich Texas . They are not considered equal , in degree of fatness , to some parts of the Brazos , Colorado , and Guadalupe bottoms , but are thought to have compensation in ...
... bottoms . We had passed one field white with excellent cotton , entirely unpicked . This , he informed us , was often the The crop was so great that the hands that had sown the case . seed were unable to reap . Ten bales to the 94 TEXAS ...