. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . We pass groups of stone houses. which stand blue army wagons drawn up in line; pass groups of stone houses,then into a long street, thickly lined with dwellings, set down in the midst ofdelicious gardens; scent the perfume drifting from the flower-beds; climb alittle hill, whirl into a Spanish-looking square, and descend, cramped in limb ands
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . We pass groups of stone houses. which stand blue army wagons drawn up in line; pass groups of stone houses,then into a long street, thickly lined with dwellings, set down in the midst ofdelicious gardens; scent the perfume drifting from the flower-beds; climb alittle hill, whirl into a Spanish-looking square, and descend, cramped in limb andsore in bone, at the portal of the Menger House, in the good old city of SanAntonio, the pearl of Texas. XIV. AMONG THE OLD SPANISH MISSIONS. THE great State of Texas is usually spoken of by its inhabitants as dividedinto eight sections—namely, Northern, Eastern, Middle, Western, Ex-treme South-western, and North-western Texas, the Mineral Region, and thePan Handle. This latter section, which embraces more than 20,000 squaremiles, is at present inhabited almost entirely by Indians. The mineral regionproper, beheved to be exceedingly rich in iron and copper ores, comprises 50,000. The vast pile of ruins known .-\s the San Jose ^Mission [Page 154I square miles. The vast section between the San Antonio river and the RioGrande—as well as the stretch of seven hundred miles of territory between SanAntonio and El Paso, on the Mexican frontier, is given up to grazing herds ofcattle, horses, and sheep, to the hardy stock-raiser, and to the predatory Indianand Mexican. Across the plains runs the famous old San Antonio road, which,for 150 years, has been the most romantic -oute upon the western continent. Thehighway between Texas and Mexico, what expeditions of war, of plunder, ofsavage revenge, have traversed it! What heroic soldiers of liberty have lost theirlives upon it! What mean and brutal massacres have been perpetrated along itsdusty stretches! What ghostly processions of friar
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