248 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINTSCENOES. 



adays cleared of jungles and con- 

 vferted into cultivated fields, with 

 prosperous farms, and game of all 

 kinds has consequently dimin- 

 ished considerably in these days 

 of our rapidly advanced era of 

 modern civilization. 



Another interesting and olden- 

 times nature-scenery around San 

 Antonio is represented in the 



east of the city, in a hilly region 

 — now traversed by street cars 

 and studded with palatial modern 

 residences — 'the view being taken 

 after some torrential rains and 

 in the neighborhood of a hilly re- 

 gion, close to the old gravel pit 

 in the eastern suburbs of the city. 

 The goats and sheep — hundreds 

 of them — were owned by Mexi- 



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An Old Time Prairie Scenery and Hunting Ground at the Romantic Withers, Leona Pasture 



original picture herein of another 

 large pool of stagnating water, 

 surrounded by oak and mesquite 

 trees, and a large number of goats 

 and sheep scattered around the 

 underbrush thickets of this tank. 

 It was an unusually fascinating, 

 and in older days, a typical scen- 

 ery around old San Antonio; and 

 this view was taken a few miles- 



cans, and it always was a most 

 fascinating sight to behold how 

 they rambled over the bushy hills 

 and underbrush in large flocks 

 and, as seen in this instance, 

 around both sides of a large stag- 

 nating waterpool. These same 

 places are now more or less 

 cleared of trees and shrubbery 

 and laid out in building lots, or 



