country, feel it as a pleasant, healthful breeze, rendering our
highest temperature tolerable.--_Prof. Forshey, of the Texas
Military Institute_.


TRINITY RIVER AND ITS VALLEY.

So far as I have described the river, the climate is pleasant and
salubrious, and favorable for planting. The forests and
cane-brakes mitigate the cold of the northers in winter, and the
south breezes temper the heat of summer. Contrary to the usual
opinion, plantations, when once cleared of decaying timber, are
found to be remarkably healthy. In fact, there are no causes of
sickness. The river in summer is only a deep, sandy ravine, with a
clear and rapid stream of water running at its bottom, and in the
rear of the plantations, instead of swamps, are high rolling
cane-brakes.

The paradox, that there is more good land on the Trinity than on
the Mississippi, is one which will be readily sustained by those
who are acquainted with the subject.--_Texas Almanac, 1861_.


TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS.

The soil is exceedingly rich, from two to ten feet deep, and when
the seasons are favorable it produces from sixty to one hundred
bushels of corn, and from one and a half to two bales of cotton,
per acre. From twenty-five to thirty acres of corn, or twelve to
fifteen acres of cotton to the hand, are usually cultivated.