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river if laid out under the ln.w, and if by individual 2 or 3 would do,-then there could be 9 or 10 Labors more etc-12 Oclock we are now at the Town cite and I have got four of the company to swim the river and hunt for the navadad,-we have for 3 days seen smoke in the direction they are going-I am now of the Opinion that the navadad enters the bay by a separate mouth- Two men of my Company told me They had been down the Chickolct to tide water and that tide flowed up it 3 or 4 miles nbove its junction with the Ln.ba.cca-all this was false-they both stated that they had marked land in the forks of the same, and when we crossed the Chickolet it did not corispond with the statement they had made, and we presumed that it might be a spring br:rnch,-so we neg- lected examining the labacca. for several miles-following a course (as they said) would take us near the head of tide on the-Chickolet, and ultimately found ourselves in the main Guadaloupe Prairie-I then changed my course and struck the river about 7 or 8 miles above the town site where I found fine ritch first bottom, some which howeYer overflows-- And most excellent second bottom and plenty of good timber- The timber here prevented me :from seeing with any satis- faction the E side of the river, further than there appeared to be one continued bottom and well timbered near the river. It has been misting rain while I have been writing and our company is rather in confusion, and I have to fear what I have written will rather confuse then give the information I at first expected-nothing more until the boys return who have gone to hunt Navadad.- 6 Oclock men has returned and state that they traveled East about 4 miles came to a lively runing Creek, went down but a short distance to tide. fine timber on this creek- Good bottom and upland prairie between it and the Labacca-about 2 or 3 miles furder East they seen heavy bodys of timber and which they believe to be the timber of the N avadad say six or seven miles distant from this river and that the timber appeared to bear near a parallel course with the Labacca-this the more confirms me in the belief that this River and the navadad does not unite before they Get into the bay, and very probebly their mouths are 5, 6 or 7 miles apart- I start for Gonzalez in the morning-I will only add that no place on earth can exceed this for beauty- The Elisian fields of the Mehometan Paradise never was so delightsome as the Prai• ries.- JA::1rns KERR [Addressed:] Colo. Stephen F Austin Sanfelipe De Austin Doctor GD Boyd
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