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expected to plant the 'Florida coffee' & then he should be perfectly independent in case of blockades of the coast. He had flocks of sheep & goats and the were in a thriving condition, but for sheep be observed that the Musqent? grasses & clear streams of the west was better than the part of Colorado he resided on. Spinning cotton & wool was going on c the loom likewise

 The river today has commenced rising rapidly owing to rains in the mountains & a freshet is expected. There are Hills about here averaging from 100 to 200 feet from the prairies, composed of gravel, & founded schaous pebbles, & masses of indurated sands containing much oxide of iron, thus is used for building, particularly for chimnies, & walls, the good folks adhere yet to the Frame & log houses; now if they would build entirely with this rock, they would have cool houses in Summer & ?orther tight ones