Texas; mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung und die physischen Verhältnisse des Landes

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Page 384 - Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report and map of the examination of New Mexico, made by Lieutenant JW Abert, of the topographical corps.
Page 378 - Neosho river; where there are also said to be a few singular bituminous or 'tar springs,' as they are sometimes called by the hunters. There are also many other mineral, and particularly sulphur springs, to be met with. Further westward, the sandstone prevails; but some of the table plains are based upon strata of a sort of friable calcareous rock, which has been denominated 'rotten limestone...
Page 426 - ... species. The water fell over a ledge of this conglomerate about 5 feet high. In some gullies near I picked up many specimens of small echini.
Page 16 - Constitution of the State of Texas. Adopted in Convention at the City of Austin, 1845. Austin: Printed at the Office of the "New Era.
Page 426 - ... purling stream was here formed, which carried the surplus waters of the beautiful reservoir to mingle with the brackish current of the Brazos. . . . The basin was converted into an immense bathing-tub.15 Falconer's description is more scientific: The third day after leaving the [Brazos] river...
Page 425 - ... of nine or ten inches in length , and two or three inches in thickness.

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