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passed ? or as ? joined about here. Large cotton wood - associated to the Sycamore bears a ? prob: of the poplar tribe - Met Messrs. Gilbean, Culligan &c &c on their journey to N. Orleans via Galveston with ?Speare? from San Antonio. pack mules is thier plan & a good one travelling 40 miles per day - they intended going by San Felipe but the Brazos water so high that it would have been impossible to get thro' the bottom - crossed to Richmond, it is well Situated in a bluffy prairie - this