. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f the GovernorGeneral who had them deported fromNova Scotia in 1755. The region is aland of romance, and there are incite-ments to similar sentiments all throughthe route until we reach the end of thejcmrney. every one was killed. • Thermopylae hadits messenger of defeat; Alamo had San .Antonio there is a run of170 miles to Del Rio, which the partyreached about 6 P. M. A speed of about30 miles an hour had been maintained allday, which gave the travelers the oppor-tunity to watch the
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . f the GovernorGeneral who had them deported fromNova Scotia in 1755. The region is aland of romance, and there are incite-ments to similar sentiments all throughthe route until we reach the end of thejcmrney. every one was killed. • Thermopylae hadits messenger of defeat; Alamo had San .Antonio there is a run of170 miles to Del Rio, which the partyreached about 6 P. M. A speed of about30 miles an hour had been maintained allday, which gave the travelers the oppor-tunity to watch the antics of the prairiedogs, the herds of cattle and the gambolsof the festive cowboy. Towards Del Riothe prairie appearance of the country be-comes broken and the spurs of the RockyMciuntains make a rough route for a rail-road. To the left there is at a long dis-tance a low blue mist, which is mountainsin Mexico, which are seen more clearly asthe party advances. There are somefamous springs at Del Rio, but the partydid not stop to examine thein. As soonas a fresh engine was attached to the train. ieorge B. Lorteiyou, Private >ecv 10 lh» President. Dignon, Lowell, Mass. Mrs. Charles A. Moore. M Mrs. Dr. Rixey, U. S. N. Mrs. Corlelyou. Mr San Antonio, , where they ar-rived in due time, is the first place of ab-sorbing antiquarian interest which wemeet, and near here some of the mostheroic events happened that ended in mak-ing Texas a State of the Union. This is a town of missions and of re-ligious institutions—institutions that wereplanted over all their possessions by theSpaniards. The mission of San Franciscolie la Espada inthis place is the last of achain conveying religious influence southward. Here is an oUlchurch called the Alamo, where eventshappened that will always Call for admir-ation of men who display unvanquishedvalor, men who achieve and endure, andwhen defeat comes of overwhelming num-bers, fall with cheerful resignation, theirfaces to t
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