; NOTES TAKEN. 
Usually, however, they never appear until settled weather in 
the spring, when they are about, as lively as ever. 
We saw wolves frequently to-day, and a good many deer, 
which gave us cheering prospects for better times, nor were 
we disappointed, for shortly afterwards we struck the lime- 
stone and found a beautiful and abundant spring, bubbling 
up at the foot of an overhanging cliff, composed of limestone, 
a layer of gypsum over, conglomerate on top of that, and 
sandstone overall. Agate, chalcedony, jasper and cornelian 
abounded here in great quantity. 
We nooned here, drinking copious draughts of this deli- 
cious water, which only he who has been so long deprived of 
it as we had been can fully appreciate. 
Having refilled our water-sacks, we mounted again and 
crossed the south fork of the Brazos, finding the water 
undrinkable and the same appearance in the bed of the 
stream, the water disappearing entirely in the sand, and the 
shores frosted with salt and gypsum, the salt thick enough to 
be gathered in handsful. 
We now found a very broken country, and after a short 
ride crossed another fork of the Brazos, which from a moun- 
tain which we ascended a short distance from the opposite 
shore, we called Table Mountain Fork. 
This mountain was composed of calcareous sand-stone, 
rose precipitously from the plain and was quite level on top. 
Descending this, we crossed a succession of rocky bluffs, and 
finally ascending over a steep and dangerous road, came to a 
