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8 The Wells at Columbus give water at 30 feet below the surface; after passing through thick soil, the rest is through silicious pebbles. [Barter is the present system of trade. Cotton for Sugar & Coffee & Bacon for boots - Corn for Calomel & Quinine & Whiskey - Beef for Brandy &c &c thus a Columbus trader's books would be an interesting M.S. for the British Museum; but times will soon change and then cash payments will enliven the hearts of buyers & sellers]

 Journey to Austin

15th Accompanied Senator Smith up the Eastern side of the Colorado river, to La Grange. To this place there are gentle slopes down to the river, interspersed with open country or prairie - the Woodland of the bottom; the lands are very rich, but at present there are but few plantations and farms worked; the roads are choked up with the wild Sun-flower & weeds, so much so that other roads are made by the side of the old

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