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90 the unclear found the Summer & winter grape, ripe & fit for eating; (There are two other sorts the Blue & ton? grape, probably another, the Mustang grape.) The Black walnut, shell hard & smaller than the fruit of the white walnutt used in Europe; black & red haw; two sorts of persimmon; peccan; ?ncary & mountain plum. 11. Got to the source of the Sabinas, where thousands of springs are seen rushing out of the calcerous Mountains, forming rapid streams, but now & then a hunt? seen. The steep & rocky banks of the streams have a shelving appearance as if formed by the returing? of waters; this same characteristic is perceived on the face of the ranges of hills ; the ground also is unclear with isolated masses of the calcerous rock, & of all dimensions. We are now on Indian ground & thus have to keep a sharp look out; our party is rather too small; fifteen or twenty is a good number. Game & wild turkeys in abundance.