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57 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 Mantletta or rich silk shawl are to be admired. paragraph has vertical line drawn through

 In the Evening a party was made up to visit the Alamo passing the wooden bridge; which is out of repair?, , owing to a brck? in the river. The Sangunary 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 Travis did with "his gun" upon the Toluca regiment. 
 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 coronel? &

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