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[[underlined]] Texarkana to [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] June 10 [[/underlined]] Left Texarkana at 8:35 A.M. Scrub-oak & scrub pine openings continue west of Texarkana to New Boston where is a good sized prairie, broad, smooth and grassy, yellow with flowers. Some marshes on the prairie. Looks like a first rate collecting ground. Should think the prairie was 4 or 5 miles across. Smaller openings & prairies along the R.R. but scrub timber covers most of the land. Some places not settled for many miles. Some good farms of cotton & corn.
From New Boston to Annone circular mounds are scattered all along irregularly. They are 30 to 60 feet across and 4 to 6 feet high. circular and even in outline, often cover a third of the land. Are all on rolling land & not on flood land. Are just like those so common on the high ground 3 miles west of Mer Rouge. I can suggest no good orrigin of these mounds. They are clay soil so can not be dunes. Are too numerous for human work, too large for animal mounds unless made by Megatherium. Are too circular and even for icebergs or glacier deposits. Forest trees grow on them. Have not examined the soil structure.
Bought my ticket to Oak Grove, but found no one lived there so went on to Annone but did not like that & went on to Clarksville & got off. Tramped over the surrounding country all of P.M. but found

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Reviewed. Completely stumped by what I think is probably a town name ie [[Annone?]] -@siobhanleachman Probably Annona, TX, near New Boston & Texarkana-nmath