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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[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