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leaving the high part in the right. In the hills a good deal of brush grows making cover for squirrels, rabbits & other game. By what little I saw of it I judge there is a good deal of game on them but on account of tall brush & stony ground they are probably hard to approach.
The country about San Augustin is the same or practically so as all the edge of the Valley of Mex, on this side. The larger part of land

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that can be cultivated & a good deal that can not is devoted to maguey plants. Fields of the best ground are here & there reserved for corn, wheat & barley. The corn is just being planted some of the wheat is only a few inches in height & some is headed out.
It began raining about 3:30 P.M. & I came in & waited for my train which was due at 3:40. As it drew near train time a few people living in the neighborhood were to go on