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57 paragraph has vertical line drawn through and of a dark hue & the children look fine & healthy. Some of the young females are very pretty, & when seen tripping to Matins or Vespers, their hands & faces coquettily wrapped up in a Mantilla or rich silk shawl are to be admired.

 In the Evening a party was made up to visit the Alamo passing the wooden bridge; which is out of repair,  owing to a swell in the river. The Sanguinary histories connected with this spot we all knew, but we met with an old Mexican who, as he traversed this sacred pile of ruins with us, showed us where Crockett, Travis, Bowie & others fell recounting to us the brutalities of Santa Ana & his followers. One thing in particular our guide expatiated upon namely the execution Travis did with "his gun" upon the Toluca regiment. [sign of cross with dots in the four spaces]
 The church of the Alamo must have been a very fine building; the front has still some fine scroll work. Over the door-way is to be seen a coronet &

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