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Title: Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: T. Addison Richards
Subjects: United States--Guidebooks Canada--Guidebooks
Publisher: D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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ve an elevatidnof 3,000 feet above the Rio Grande ;and the Guadalupe group rises to thatheight above the adjacent plains. Texas abounds in mineral wealth, asmight be supposed from her proximityto the rich mining districts of Mexico.Gold and silver he buried, no doubt, inlarge supplies in her soil. Indeed, thelatter metal has been already found atSan Saba and upon the Bidas River.Exciting rumors prevailed for a while,some few years since, of the detectionof gold, west of the Colorado River, andbetween it and the San Saba Mountains.Coal is supposed to exist about 200miles from the coast, in a belt extending south-west from Trinity River tothe Rio Grande. Iron is found in manyparts of the State ; and copperas,agates, lime, alum, chalcedony, jasper,and red and white sandstone. Thereare, too, salt-lakes and salt-springs. Ina pitch lake, 20 miles from Beaumont,there are deposits of sulphur, nitre, andfire-clay. The coast of Texas, like that of the TEXAS. 309 The Rio Grande and other Rivers.
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borders of all the Southern States onthe Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico,is lined with a chain of low islands, sep-arated from the main land by bays andlagoons. There are the bays of Galves-ton, Matagordo, Espiritu Santa, Aran-zas, Corpus Christi, and Laguna del Ma-dre. These bays are some 30, and somenearly 100 miles in length. The Rio Grande, or Rio Bravo delNorte, the largest river in Texas, ofwhich it forms the southern boundary,is 1,800 miles in length. It comes fromthe Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mex-ico. It is a shallow stream, muchbroken by rapids and sand-bars, thoughsmall steamboats ascend its waters 450miles from the sea, to Kingsbury Rapids.The Great Indian Crossing is about900 miles from its mouth. At this placeis the famous ford of the Apaches andthe Camanches, when they make theirpredatory visits into Mexico. The Colorado River runs from thetable-lands in the north-west part of theState 900 miles to Matagordo Bay. Aus- tin City, Bastrop, La Grange, Colum-bus, and Mat

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