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CHAP. VI.]
COUNTIES.
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common potato yield inmmense crops of the best
quality, and maize, cotton, wheat, rye, and oats are
well adapted to the soil. A species of rooted bulbous
grass grows upon the prairies, and furnishes
ample and welcome provision for swine.
Cummin's Creek flows through a country equally
divided between woodland and prairie, and has rich
and extensive bottoms supporting a growth of post,
black, red, and live oak, pecan, cedar, cottonwood,
elm, and hackberry. On the banks of the creek
are some excellent stone quarries.
On the lower side of Buckner's Creek, in Fayette
County, rises a " bluff" above 300 feet in height,
and on the side towards the river almost perpendicular.
There are springs upon the summit forming
in their descent a picturesque cascade, the vicinity
of which abounds in limestone spar. The plain, on
the crest of the mount, is of great beauty, and commands
a magnificent prospect of wooded and flowerspangled
prairies, winding streams, dusky forests,
and distant mountains. The land upon Buckner's
Creek is very rich, and sufficiently timbered for
agricultural purposes.
In its course through these counties, the Colorado
is a deep and rapid stream, about one hundred yards
wide; its banks are seldom overflowed.
THE COUNTIES OF BASTROP AND TRAVIS (formerly
Bastrop) resemble in the lower section Colorado
and Fayette. A vast chain of prairie, extending
from the western bank of the Colorado to the
mountains, is inferior to no part of Texas in beauty
of aspect and fertility of soil. The bottoms on the
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Kennedy, William. Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1, book, January 1, 1841; London. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2389/m1/217/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.