Easl. from Lhe moulh of lhis river a long Lhe Coasl. Including Lhc rivers Sanantonia Warloope Labacca Colerada Pernardo Brazos-Sanjacinlo & Trinity-all of which slrearns run inlo !he Gulph of Mexico. bclween the Noaces. and Sibinc Ri\'er which last. is Lhe boundary line belween Texas. and Louisanna, Texas fronls upon the Cea Coasl. about six hundred .Miles Lhere is a very little Marsh upon Lhis Coasl and insleed the Land in many places is high and Dry several of lhe stream. which l have menlioncd moulh into the Gulph. forming no bay. (others run into l\lalegordia and Galveston bays, the Braxos-River discharges itself. inlo the Gulph al aboul an equeal dislancc. helween the two bays. which I have mentioned this is the Largest and longest River in Texas. and is likely lo be the Moast usefull for Navigation this river is near Lhe Center of Texas. from East to West. Velasco. is at the mouth of the Brazos. Brazoria is on the Bank of this river twenty five miles above Velasco. Columbia is Ten l\'Iiles from Brazoria two miles West from the Bank of the River in the Peririe. the Barnard a Stream which I have before mentioned is only two or Lhree Miles from Columbia. from thence it runs a southwest. course lo the Gulph Sanfilipe de Austin the Capitol of Austins Colony. is on the West Bank of the Brazos. Run one hundred Miles from Its. Mouth into the Gulph of Mexico. this Town is and has been the Residence of Col- Stephen F Austin. Since 1823.-the land upon the Brazos-and particular by the Bottom Land. is perhaps. as Rich as any Land. in this or any other Country the whole is a body of Alluvial Soil Generally of a Mulatto: Color. the Growth upon the Bottom Land is Live Oak Pecon ash Hackbery: Red oak Cotton Wood and in Many places- Sycemore. Under Growth Wild Peach and Cane the bottom Lands are very Wide Measureing. from six to Ten- Miles the timber in the Lower Country which is the . Country now under description is Confined to the Water Corses the upland are vary lill le above the levell of the bottom. they are Perarie perfectly levell without lembr. this is the situation of all the Land part of the Country from East to West. altho in passing over the Country you Meet with Numerous Streams. and the bollo ms are vary Wide yet the proportion of Paririe. Land is much greater than the timbered upon all the water corses the soil is alluvial. and Rich. there is 110 springs. found in this Levell Rcgin of Country. and indeed Waler is scarce to be found. al some scarons; except in the Rivers or Large Creeks the smaller streams aU go ,try.
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