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18A

 The approach to the coast of Texas as I have before mentioned is anything but interesting, being so very low.  Emigrants [[crossed  out:  of the former poor [?] ]] and [4 unclear words] from Europe ? have been much disappointed on arriving in Galveston, that they have crossed out:  left their country immediately departed either to the U. States or to their homes.

[[paragraph crossed out: But even on the nearly Sandy island of Galveston, with a little attention the ignorant ? lay thing in the ageless ? X even to some of the more northern products.]]

  Emigrants who have had the perseverance to go up the Bay, on Buffalo Bayou to Houston that became more ? & by extending their journeys into Montgomery County, to the Eastern where with many laborer finds a climate he can work on without the help of Negros; many