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analogies to that of New Mexico. Here the winters are 

 pretty cold, the springs late, the summers excessively hot, the 

 soil generally thin, and therefore the prospects of the settlers 

 unfavorable. 



" I add a few details of localities and distances, which may 

 not be found on the common maps. 



" Green Lake and Caritas River are in the low lands near 

 Matagorda Bay. Victoria is a town a little higher up on the 

 lower Guadaloupe. New Braunfels on the Comale Creek 

 and Guadaloupe River, is about one hundred miles to the 

 northwest of the Bay, twenty-five miles northeast of San 

 Antonio, and forty-five miles southwest of Austin, the present 

 capital of Texas. The road from New Braunfels to San 

 Antonio crosses the Cibolo, one of the confluents of San 

 Antonio River, which runs in a wide and pebbly, and often 

 dry bed. The Salado, one of the heads of which is the 

 often-mentioned Comanche Spring, is another branch of San 

 Antonio river, and such, farther south, are the Leona and the 



Medina. 



" In going west from New Braunfels we reach, fifty-five 

 miles from that town, the upper waters of the Guadaloupe, 

 the so-called Guadaloupe crossings on the Pinto-trail. Sev- 

 eral small streams in this neighborhood, Spring Creek, Wasp 

 Creek, Three Creeks, and Sabinas (or Cypress Creek) are 

 often mentioned as localities of different plants. 



"North of this the road crosses several high ridges, 

 (where, among other plants, Guajacum angustifolium, and in 

 deep, clear ponds Chara translucens, were discovered,) and 

 reaches, sixty miles from the Guadaloupe, the Pierdenales, one 

 of the branches of Colorado River. The town of Friedrichs- 

 burg is built near the Pierdenales in a rather barren, sandy 

 region, thinly scattered with Post Oaks. 



" About thirty-five miles north of this the granitic region 

 of the Llano or Liano is reached. The San Saba runs thirty 

 miles farther north. 



" The Flora of the country east of the Brazos River bears 



