The North American Review, Vol. 120 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 120 There can be no fairer way to get at the general character of all this interior country than by accurate statistical data, and by traversing the entire distance to the Pacific Ocean at intervals of a few degrees. Then, if the traveller judges intelligently what he sees, and describes truthfully, his conclusions should be entitled to some consideration; above all, if his motives are to arrive at truth. Suppose a start is made from the general line along the eastern boundary of Texas, the Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota, commencing with the southernmost line, - say nearly along the 32d parallel of north latitude, - passing through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. This parallel nearly bisects the State of Texas, but the western portion of our southern boundary deflects so much northward as to make it necessary for our route to deflect also. In going westward through Texas, whether we start from the Sabine, from Galveston, or from Powder Horn, we find, until we reach the meridian of San Antonio, or about the 98th degree west from Greenwich, a region of plains and timber, well watered, a moist atmosphere, and a sufficient rainfall, making a valuable agricultural country. For a hundred miles farther, or, in fact, until we come to the 100th meridian, all these features rapidly change, the soil becomes thin, the rainfall less; the streams dry up in summer, timber is more meagre, the grass shorter, and changes into mesquite, or buffalo-grass, and the surface becomes broken. The climate varies most singularly in different years. Two or three successive seasons of drought will be followed by as many of abundant rains. Nothing can surpass the fruitfulness and beauty of this section in seasons of plenty, - which has given rise to much beautiful but partial description, - nor its desolation in drought. In the third successive dry season the grass actually disappears altogether, and the earth cracks open in immense fissures. Great difficulty is then found in subsisting stock, and much actually perishes. The annular layers of the timber show this change of seasons to be the regular order there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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