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Feb. 9 Left Del Rio at 1:30 a.m. & reached San Antonio at 8 a.m. - 170 miles.
The country is all flat. At San Antonio I am out of sight of mountains for the first time for the first time since coming to the Black Hills of Dakota in June, 1888.
It did not get light until the train was about 50 miles of San Antonio. Here the country looked better than at Del Rio. There were small streams with mesquit & evergreen oaks along them, some of the trees are loaded with gray Spanish Moss. There are ranches & some farms.
Grass is abundant.
Near San Antonio there are good farms. Vegetable gardens are green with all sorts of vegetables. The mesquites are in blossom & so are some small plants.
Vegetation is mostly brown & in a resting state. Yucca baccatas are in blossom in the yards in town.
It is Sunday, but I strolled about town most of the fore noon & then called on H. Attwater in P.M. & spent the rest of the day with him.
There are some nice buildings in San Antonio
The old Alimo Mission building where, David Crockett was killed, is a fine old ruin 160 years old.