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City Gaz: June 10. 1840 [[image of cross with 4 dots, twice]

The town of San Antonio may be said to be in ruins, but repairs are slowly going on. It occupies a fertile plain on the western bank. It is regularly laid off in streets, crossing each other at right angles, with an oblong space in the centre, about midway on which stands the church & other public buildings, divided into two equal divisions of eight acres, the "Eastern denominated the civil, the western the military square. Around these Plazas or Squares are erected a continuous walk of flat roof'd stone homes, resembling fortifications.

There are other buildings of Adobe or sun-dried bricks, lastly huts of the Rancheros erected of thin crooked muskeet logs, placed endwise in the ground, the crevices 'chunked & daubed' (filled with clay), without windows, flooring, & thatched with prairie grass.

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