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San Antonio is built in the brush, it is flat & loosely built, many little tumbledown houses. It is called the nicest town in Texas but I do not like it.
There are lots of birds all over town. The Mockingbirds & Cardinals are trying to sing. A frosty morning. warm day.

Feb. 10 Another frosty morning, making 3 in succession. Attwater says it is the coldest spell of the winter. The parts are light & it seems to warm up quickly. 
Found that I could not leave town for the north until [[overwritten]] 3 [[/overwritten]] 4 oclock P.M. so after attending to my baggage & other business, I went back to Attwaters & staid till 2 oclock talking with him & showing him some about doing field collecting.
Left San Antonio at 4 P.M. for home by way of Austin, Ft. Worth, Kansas City, Quincy, Burlington, & Minneapolis. Reached Austin at dark. 
After leaving San Antonio the country is open, rolling prairie with timber along the streams. The soil is dark & looks rich. There are good large farms all along & no sign of irrigation, large cotton fields are numerous, also corn -