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Timbers the prairie becomes studded with stony knobs decorated with dwarf live oak. Stubby, but the vallies below & rnayers of streams are of a high degree of fertility.

 The Prairie in addition to all the wild grasses known, produces spontanously Wheat, Rye, Oats & Red Clover & refering naturally from the domestic or

cultivated varieties. We also find Cayenne pepper, Flax & the hdajo plant profusely and redily scattered over the Country. Among the wild animals that roam almost undisturbed in this region, the Bison ^ or Buffalo & Wild Horses are conspicuous, the former nothing inwards from our approach like porpoises at Sea and the latter in all their ration freedom & retorss coming over the plain in corsions searty, now approaching and now bounding away with the speed of the wind. During the vernal season they find abundant sustenance on the prairies and during the winter months they seek shelter from wind & cold in the bottoms where the ?it rge & a variety of winter grasses supply them with food.