History of Texas, from its discovery and settlement, with a description of its principal cities and counties, and the agricultural, mineral, and material resources of the state . accepted his satanic majestys proposition ! A distinguished sportsman of Austin thus wiitesto the Turf^ Field and Farm: Though, like every ardent sportsman, a devotedlover of the beauties of Nature, animate and inani-mate, yet it so happened that, shooting over theground only in the autumn and winter, it had hardlyoccurred to me to imagine how lovely it looked inthe pleasant spring-time. III approaching the spot where
History of Texas, from its discovery and settlement, with a description of its principal cities and counties, and the agricultural, mineral, and material resources of the state . accepted his satanic majestys proposition ! A distinguished sportsman of Austin thus wiitesto the Turf^ Field and Farm: Though, like every ardent sportsman, a devotedlover of the beauties of Nature, animate and inani-mate, yet it so happened that, shooting over theground only in the autumn and winter, it had hardlyoccurred to me to imagine how lovely it looked inthe pleasant spring-time. III approaching the spot where we intended totry our luck, you gradually ascend from the valley,until, at the end of two or three miles, you attain aconsiderable elevation, probably eight hundred feetor more above the level of the gulf, and reach thesummit of a bold prairie ridge extending with occa-sional broken spurs three or four miles to your rightand left. From this point, looking toward the north,the spires and domes of the lovely capital of Texas,twelve miles distant, shimmer in the sunlight; im-mediately beyond them Mount Bonnell, with its sum-mit wreathed in a light mist, looks down upon the. HISTORY OF TEXAS. 423 city, while at the mountains base the crystal watersof the Colorado leap over the Mormon Falls andhurry on to Matagorda Bay. To your left, the PilotKnob is distinctly visible close at hand, covered fromits base to its summit with a rich emerald carpet, in-terspersed here and there with immense beds of richblue and scarlet flowers. Immediately in your front, in all its quiet pas-toral beauty, lies the Valley of Onion Creek. Theblue sky above is flecked with masses of light gulfclouds, driven northward by the wind. And such abreath of air nothing can surpass, and as I felt itplaying upon my cheek I almost fancied I could hearthe roar of the Mexican Gulf from whence it hadcome, and could not help thinking it was the verybreeze that Bryant must have felt in all the pulses ofhis blood when he
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