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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 
