and proceeding westward, and are the Sabine, the Nnches, the Trinity, the Navisot, the San Jacinto and Buffalo, which form a junction where Santa Anna was defeated, and empty into Galveston Bay; the Brazos, the Bernard, and Cana, which with the two first already mentioned, flow into the gulf; the Colo- rado, the Tresperlasis, the Navidad, the La Bacca, the Gundnloupe, mingling their waters in l\Iatagorda Day; the San Antonio, the :Mission, and the Neuaces, losing themselves in the bay of Aransas. Those of the above, exceeding two hundred miles in length, are the Trinity, the Brazos and the Colorado. Those less than two hundred and more than eighty miles, are the Sabine, the Naches, the Bernard, the Guacla- loupe and San Antonio, with the Neuaces. 'fhe rest are of various lengths under eighty miles. The harbors are, Galveston Bay, the passage into which affords from ten to eighteen feet of water, and on the west of which is Galveston Island, where Gen. Cos and six hundred of his troops are detained as prisoners; Velasco, at the mouth of the river Brazos, having frOJ?l five to six feet of water. Matagorda Bay, the entrance into which is called Passo Cabello,-deptb of water the same with Galveston, having two ports of entry, one at Matagorda, at the mouth of tf:be Colo- rado, the other Cox's point, at the mouth of the La Bacca. The fourth is Aransas Bay, into which is the
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