Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1841. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter vi. Suitable Locations for Agricultural Emigrants--Facilities for raising every kind of Stock--Division of the Republic into Counties--Character of their Soil and nature of their Products--Jefferson--Jasper--Sabine--San Augustine--Shelby--Harrison--Red River--Fannin--Nacogdoches--Houston--Liberty--Galveston--Harrisburg--Montgomery--Robertson--Milam--Brazoria--Austin--Fort Bend--Washington--Matagorda--Colorado--Fayette--Bastrop--Travis--Jackson--Victoria--Gonzalez--Refugio--Goliad--Bexar--San Patricio--Original Field Notes and Journal of a Survey, for the New Arkansas and Texas Land Company--Superiority of Prairie over Forest Land for the 'purposes of Settlers, especially European emigrants. In describing the three great natural divisions of the soil of Texas, the emigrant has been furnished with a general guide to direct him in pitching his tent, or erecting his log-house, in conformity with his previous habits and ultimate views. If the native of a southern clime, devoted to tropical agriculture and anxious to obtain quick and large returns from capital, he will find a suitable field of operation on the alluvial lands of the coast, or the rich "bottoms" of the Red River. If accustomed to a more temperate clime, and the mixed pursuit of farming and stock-raising, he will be quite at home on the rolling prairies. If transplanted from the keen and vigorous north, from a land where the aid of manufacturing industry has been called in to assist the endeavours of the grower of wheat and the breeder of sheep and cattle, his proper restingplace will be in the bracing neighbourhood of the north-western high lands, where tender pasturage awaits the importation of the Merino, and streams, rapid and perennial, invite the erection of mills and the introduction of ma...
