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40 settlement & good cotton & corn plantation; hundreds of his cattle roam about. He has some 80 Negros & not one appears to have been sick this season; they looked clean and comfortable, hearty & gay, particularly the little? ones. They spin & weave all their Cotton & Wollen clothing on this plantation, & make the bagging & rope of Cotton, for baling upon the Cotton for market. It has been reported by some one who has written upon this country & repeated by others, that the irish potatoe planted in Texas becomes the Sweet potatoe, x this I will not vouch for, but Mr F __ planted the white pea (large quantities of it) 3 or 4 years since, and it is now the small yellow pea. 13th - Continued our journey. Six miles from this on the La Vaca the wells are 30? feet deep in some places going through clay & indurate sand.

 We met with Captn Hatch at the farm we

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