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[[underline]] Beaumont to Houston [[/underline]]

[[underline]]June 23[[/underline]] - Left Beaumont on S.P. at 6:52 and reached Houston at 9:45.  had a delightful ride over cool, breezy prairies

The whole way is prairie except for strips of timber along the several streams and here & there groves or "watts" of various kinds of trees.  I should say that 3 fourths of the way was prairie.  To the north & south the sky often meets the grass, but no where were we entirely out of sight of timber.

The prairie is flat & level with numerous ^[[little]] mounds scattered over the surface on the dry part.  A great deal of it has been made into rice fields & the growing grain row stands 6-10 inches high.  Most of the rice fields have been flooded from the big canals & the water is running in the ditches.  They are especially attractive feeding ground for Green & Little blue herons, clapper rails, blackbirds - redwing & big grackles, & the meadow larks are abundant about them.  Rice is the principal crop of these prairies.  A few other things are raised on the