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and marking them, which was done by raising mounds at 
intervals of half a mile along the line. 
Our mess was well supplied with wild turkeys, catfish and 
turtles, and a stream in the vicinity, a tributary of the Clear 
Fork, afforded fine sport to anglers, with a fish called here a 
trout, but which proved to be a species of bass, very game 
and rising readily to the fly. 
The soil was very fertile and the country around rich in 
minerals, and affording a fine field for geologizing. 
The rock was limestone, appearing on the south-west edge 
of the prairie piled up in layers of rectangular blocks, looking 
in the distance like a regularly built fortification. 
