Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Port of Galveston and the State of Texas
Very lovely is Galveston, this Oleander City of Texas, far from destitute of either picturesque prospects or urban charms. Far different too, its aspects, from those at its genesis, in 1837, when it was visited by the distinguished ornithologist Ando bon, who, beholding nothing more invit ing, of its site, than marsh and mud ?at, and its only rara avz's disporting in the well-ruffled plumage of the then new made Lone Star Republic, was not much impressed with the place. The morass he saw has been converted since.
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