. City of Houston . ic use, and that of the largerfactories, comes from artesian wells. The elevation, the gulf breeze, theexcellent natural and artificial drainage,and the ample water supply, with st tsanitary inspection enforced, all contributeto the healthfulness of Houston. Thequarantine regulations of Texas are ri| THE CITY OF HOUSTON. ous in the extreme, and the city has neveryet suffered from any serious epidemic. The death rate of Houston, ten to thethousand of population, is less than thatof any large city in the land. STREETS AND BUILDINGS. Houston was, originally, a settlementcluste
. City of Houston . ic use, and that of the largerfactories, comes from artesian wells. The elevation, the gulf breeze, theexcellent natural and artificial drainage,and the ample water supply, with st tsanitary inspection enforced, all contributeto the healthfulness of Houston. Thequarantine regulations of Texas are ri| THE CITY OF HOUSTON. ous in the extreme, and the city has neveryet suffered from any serious epidemic. The death rate of Houston, ten to thethousand of population, is less than thatof any large city in the land. STREETS AND BUILDINGS. Houston was, originally, a settlementclustered about the confluence of White square miles. The most distant of itssuburbs, and the one of greatest prospec-tive importance to it, is Port Houston,occupying a position which vessels oftwelve foot draft can easily reach, op-posite old Harrisburg, to which point justoutlying, the city therefore extends. The street plan of the city proper isvery irregular. The antique Spanishplaza-fashion, rectangular and unpictur-. NEW CHRIST CHURCH, HOUSTON. Oak and Buffalo Bayous. Three milesdown, on the Buffalo, at the terminationof twelve to twenty feet clear depth inthe channel, another settlement or landingplace, Harrisburg by name, shortly sprangjup. But, as at present laid out, Houstonand its suburbs constitute a parallelogramwith its longer axis following the trend ofBuffalo Bayou from northwest to south-^>t, and with an area of perhaps nineteen esque to the last degree, which is commonthroughout Texas, is here entirely disre-garded , and the five wards into which thecity is divided, as they appear on themap, present, in the direction their thor-oughfares take, a most pleasing geomet-rical variety. The principal streets are, however,broad and straight over the greater partof their courses. The most traveled are THE CITY OF HOUSTON.
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