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[[underlined]] San Antonio & Uvalde [[/underlined]]  

[[underlined]] May 14. [[/underlined]]  Left Corpus Christi at 7:28 AM and reached San Antonio about 2 P.M.  In leaving the coast we passed through the narrow belt of coast chaparral with its cactus, thorn brush & low mesquites, and meet the live oak strip extending to Skidmore.  Then prairie with a few scattered live oaks & mesquites along creeks.

After passing Ken[[strikethrough]] n [[/strikethrough]]edy [[Kenedy]] we strike a river and see the first pecan trees.  Then are beautiful live oaks & moss along the banks and fields of flowers are brilliant including species that have vanished farther south.
Reached San Antonio in a rain.

[[underlined]] May 15. [[/underlined]]  Left San Antonio at 9 A.M. for Uvalde, and arrived there at 2 P.M.  After passing Dunlay, we begin to goup considerable grade & the country has some slope.  A low escarpment appears to the north & approaches or retreats as we go westward, bearing higher.

The country becomes more open with lower, more scattered mesquites & stretches of open prairie.  Along streams the mesquite is more dense