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But not until we reached the Guadalupe R. did we strike the full set of desert brush, Condaba, Ziziphus, Lyppia, cactus, yuccas etc. the same as at San Antonio.

I should draw the dividing line between humid & arid - mesquite & not mesquite regions - at [[underline]] Flatonia [[/underline]]. Others might decide on the Colorado R. or the Guadalupe but about Flatonia seems to me the average of extremes.

Much cotton & one large region of sugar cane (east of Richmond) and some rice fields were seen by the way, also corn, but everywhere they all suffer from the unusual drouth and west of the Colorado River most of the crops are entirely ruened. Even the grass is dry & in many places it was burning. At Glidden I saw the grass beside the train burst into flame from the engine sparks & before we were out of sight it had spread to several rods of grass.

Transcription Notes:
"Lyppia" is the genus Lippia (Verbenaceae) but transcribed as written. "drouth" is drought and "ruened" is ruined, but transcribed as written.