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13 care of themselves on the prairie, we have all the timber we need, the bay is skirted with shady groves and the prairies are our flower gardens." I must do justice to these remarks as far a Matagorda & its vicinity is concerned & say that it was not a highly colored description.

   Here I fell in with a copy of 'Impressions of America" by Powers the Actor whose melancholy fate will not be forgotten for many a day.  He says of Texas when speaking of persons who are in "difficulties" numbers seek freedom from restraint within the Mexican territory, where an infusion of blood will be productive of strange ? in Texas, & if this fine territory be not within a very short period, rendered over - ? a bath for its Mexican population coming events cast their Shadows to very little purpose"
 How true a prophet was poor Power.
 Whilst here we  had a sharp tropical Thunder storm.  It was a grand specimen of what Nature can do and an individual who had just been reading a ? from one of the Greek plays quoted & with much effect, "This seems indeed as if the ' " all shaking thunder would strike flat the thick rotundity of the world."
 For some days I roamed about this part of the country, visiting the cotton plantations & ? successful attempts in the culture of Sugar Rice & Tobacco.  At a creek called Big Boggy I found the Ferryman tobe a Frenchman whom I had known years before at Bayonne.  He had