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The scenery in Limpia canyons? & Musques? near Davis is fine. Great walls of rock hundreds of feet high in places rise on both sides of the road. 35 miles west? of Davis the country is an elevated plateau plain from 5000 to nearly 7000 ft above the sea, crossed by ranges of almost in accessible mounts. The Guadalupes are the highest point in Texas. Its summit is nearly over 3000 ft above the level of the plain & nearly 10000 ft above he sea. in '78 I was on top of this mountain. The view was perfectly grand. The valleys between the mountains are in some places covered with good grass but in most places are covered with immense Spanish bayonets - some of which are 20 or 30 feet high, many varieties of cacti and other thorny sawedged plants and entangling