The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 29, July 1925 - April, 1926 Page: 259
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A Trip- to Texas in 1828
in our day the glamor of learning has come upon us so suddenly
that it has blinded some of the very few persons of judgment [in
Bejar], property owners in the main, who clamored loudly: "Out
with the friars, out with the good-for-nothings." Thus they abol-
ished the missions and divided among themselves the lands they
have not known how to cultivate and which they have left in a
sad state of neglect.
The city of San Fernando de Bejar is the capital of the beauti-
ful Department of Texas. It is located between -- degrees of
longitude and -- degrees of latitude. On the east and north
the Department is bounded by the United States, on the south
by the Gulf of Mexico and the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo
Leon, and on the west by the territory of New Mexico, whose
limits have not yet been determined. This immense territory is
watered by large rivers and numberless creeks that assure the
permanent fertility of this beautiful land. The principal rivers
that empty into the gulf of Mexico are Las Nueces, which forms
the boundary of the Department on the south; the Guadalupe,
the Colorado, the Brazos de Dios, and the Trinidad; and the
Sabine which constitutes the boundary of the United States of
the North. To these are added many others, among which the
most important are the Medina, the San Antonio, the San Marcos,
the Lavaca, the San Jacinto, the Neches, and the Angelina. The
abundance of water makes all of Texas very beautiful, especially
in the western part, for although a corresponding beauty is found
on the east in its vast and majestic woods, this is marred during
the most beautiful seasons of the year by the terrible floods caused
by the rivers which form horrible marshes and lakes where im-
mense numbers of mosquitoes, ticks, red bugs, gnats, gadflies, etc.,
breed. They are a pest both day and night, and although they
disappear in the winter, the furious northwest winds and the
heavy snows allow one to enjoy only fields covered with leafless
trees. Valuable woods are found in great abundance and they
are used to build houses because there is no stone anywhere. The
immense woods, where the sun barely penetrates, consist of oaks
of all kinds, pines, sabines, laurel trees, walnuts, plum trees, sugar
maples, sasafras, lilac trees, mulberries, and weeping willows.
Here only the murmur of the wind as it sways the tree tops, the
babbling of the rivulets as they glide along the old tree trunks,259
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