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EXTRACTS EXHIBITING CHARACTER OF COUNTRY. 
April 12 and 13.—On tlie open plain. No water; wood and grass; country rolling, and 
dotted with groves of mezquite; covered with grama-grass, and intersected with numerous 
small streams—tributaries of the Colorado. 
April 14.—Colorado river. Water, wood, and grass. The Colorado at this point is a run¬ 
ning stream—water of a reddish color; steep red-clay hanks, and about fifteen feet wide; 
country undulating; rocky in places; near here there are many detached mounds of red-stone. 
April 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19.—Country gently undulating; large forests of mezquite; every 
few miles small streams of water—tributaries of the Clear and Double Mountain forks of the 
Brazos; fine grass everywhere; road good. 
April 20.—On a large creek. Water, wood, and grass abundant; country undulating, with 
groves of mezquite scattered over it; on this creek large elm trees; good road. 
April 21, 22, 23, and 24.—On Clear fork of Brazos. Water, wood, and grass good. Clear 
fork is a running stream, of about twenty yards in width, and has a narrow valley heavily tim¬ 
bered with pecan, elm, and other trees; country rolling and rocky; few trees, except on the 
Clear fork; road not good. 
April 25 and 26.—From the Clear fork of the Brazos to the Brazos. Country rolling, mostly 
covered with trees; oak of several varieties, mezquite, and other trees; numerous-small streams; 
good grass; good road. The Brazos at this point is about ten inches deep in the channel; 
water brackish. 
From April 26 to May 16.—Country between the Brazos and Preston, on Red river, is 
gently undulating; contains a rather larger proportion of timber than prairie, and is inter¬ 
sected with numerous clear running streams of fresh water, which descend into the Brazos and 
Trinity on the south, and the Red river on the north. Fine grass and good camping places 
everywhere; road good. 
