The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899 Page: 185
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The "Prison fJournal" of S.F. Austin. 185
by a statute of himself of his own size, which stands in the centre
of the fountain on a base of stone-He is habited in the old
fashion. There are extensive baths convenient to the fountain,
constructed by the same marquis.-How much sweat & tears from
the Indian slaves, must the money have cost, which the marquis
employed in the construction of this fountain and baths? But he
received absolution from the monks & went to heaven.
In the orchard there are many very pretty cypress trees. I col-
lected seeds from them to carry to Texas.-They shewed me some
of these trees planted by the hands of the Rev. father Morfit, who
had been a monk in this convent, & a missionary at Nacogdoches in
Texas. This monk is very famous, for he has been a second Moses.
At Nacogdoches all the springs went dry, & he went out with images
of the saints & necessary apparatus to perform miracles. He struck
a blow with a rod of iron on a rock, which stands on the bank of
the creek La Nana, in Nacogdoches, & immediately a stream of
water gushed out, sufficient to supply the inhabitants with water
to drink. This miracle was canonized in Rome, and a print or
engraving of the fact was made in order to perpetuate it.-This
same padre, when he left Nacogdoches for Bexar, lost a baggage
mule, which a Tiger killed; and in the morning as soon as the padre
knew it, he made the Tiger come and kneel at his feet, and then he
was harnessed & loaded with the baggage of the dead mule, which
he carried to Bexar, & then having received a pardon for having
killed the mule, was sent back to the desert. All this is true, because
several old women told it to me in Nacogdoches & Bexar, and we
ought not to suppose that Rome would order an engraving to be
made of a miracle of the water, only to deceive credulous people.
In Queretaro the sweet potatoes are very rich, the best I have
ever tasted. Sweetmeats are very good & exceedingly cheap.-In
the convent of Santa Clara are sold large quantities of sweet-meats
of infinite kinds & qualities-Ah woman, what inadequate shadows
are these sweet-meats made by that hands, compared to the tranquil
pleasure which ye ought to dispense, by occupying that rank in
society & in the world, which the God of nature gave ye, & which
the barbarous & avaricious cunning of Rome has deprived ye.
This city is very well supplied with water of good quality, brought
by an aqueduct from the mountain in front of the city. It passes
a valley on arches, which are very well constructed, & are about
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 2, July 1898 - April, 1899, periodical, 1898/1899; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101011/m1/189/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.