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Timbers the prairie becomes studded with stony knobs decorated with dwarf live oak. Stubby, but the vallies below & rnayers? of streams are of a high degree of fertility.

 The Prairie in addition to all the wild grasses known, produces spontaneously Wheat, Rye, Oats & Red Clover & refering naturally from the domestic or

cultivated varieties. We also find Cayenne pepper, Flax & the Indigo plant profusely and redily scattered over the Country. Among the wild animals that roam almost undisturbed in this region, the Bison ^ or Buffalo & Wild Horses are conspicuous, the former nothing inwards from our approach like porpoises at Sea and the latter in all their ration freedom & retorss? coming over the plain in corsions?. scanty?, now approaching and now bounding away with the speed of the wind. During the vernal season they find abundant sustenance on the prairies and during the winter months they seek shelter from wind & cold in the bottoms where the oats rye & a variety of winter grasses supply them with food.

 The timber is Plum, Hickory, Pecan, Cedar, Bois D'Arc, Muskert, Ash, Hackberry, Elm, Black Walnut, Persimmon, Every variety of Oak, Hawthorn, Cottonwood, Sycamore,

Willow, Locust, various kinds of grapes, & imes of all kinds. Minerals. Indications of Lead are formed on white rock & other streams & in a very pure state has been found in the bed of that stream. Iron appears in the cross timbers in inexhaustable quantities near Birs's Fort. Salt in any quantity may be provided? from a lake & 15 or 20 miles above Birs's Fort near the Wood Fork.

 Prodastems? as yet scarcely any portion of the country has been cultivated to the best advantage. In Fannen County