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TEXAS.
[BOOK I.
man having fled to the Colorado River, the waters
divided, permitted him to pass through, and closed
upon the pursuing Indians, consigning them to a
common grave. After great suffering, the priest
reached the Spanish mission of San Juan, at that
period the only settlement on the San Antonio
River. The absent soldiers, returning in a few days
to the fort, where lay the mangled bodies of their
companions, found the banks of the Colorado covered
with dead Indians, and as they could discern no
marks of violence upon them, they pronounced it a
retributive miracle, and named the river " Brazos
de Dios," or " the Arm of God." In the ignorance
of after-times, it received the name of Colorado,
which previously distinguished the red and muddy
stream now known as the Brazos. The preceding
tradition is devoutly believed by the old Mexicans
about San Antonio, and is a fair sample of the
monkish legends which in Spanish America usurp
the place of rational religion.
JACKSON COUNTY, being situated in the region of
the " rolling prairie," has a gently undulating surface.
It is an open district, with the exception of
the forests that border its streams. The soil is a
rich black mould, very deep, upon a stratum of red
loam. There is hardly an acre of bad land in all
the county. There is a large spontaneous growth
of indigo, and the general produce is similar to that
of Austin and Brazoria.
The county is well watered by numerous springs.
The principal streams are the Navidad and La Baca,
which, with their tributaries, flow throughl a beau
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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/m1/222/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .