The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti Page: 91
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LIFE OF BENJAMIN LUNDY. 91
Jan. 24th. This morning I examined the grass and
found the stalks to be all green, while most of the leaves
were dry. The horses can eat it very well. Proceeding
on our way, we saw several wolves. About midday
we passed a small village, nearly all of which belongs
to a wealthy man named Sanchez, who owns immense
quantities of land about here, as well as several
lots and houses in Monclova. This village, which is
called El Tapato, is provided with a neat church. We
have come thus far on the main wagon road to Santa
Rosa. Not long after leaving the village of El Tapato,
we came to a spring famous for the heat of its waters.
It is enclosed within a large stone wall. This spring
throws out a stream of water large enough to turn a
small grist mill. At the distance of some rods from its
source, I could not hold my hand long in the stream, by
reason of its great heat. For some distance along this
stream, the leaves of the mesquite were green, the warmth
of the water having prevented the frost from killing
them. We stopped, for the night, at a cluster of cabins,
on the land of the before mentioned Sanchez.
25th. As we set off in the morning, we saw, turned
out and driven to pasture, one hundred and fifty asses
and mules, and perhaps two hundred sheep and goats.
Sanchez has a sugar establishment on his hacienda,*
provided with good stone buildings. The position is at
the edge of the mountains, and the land such as I have
described about Moncloga, exceedingly fertile when
irrigated, but when not, quite unproductive. After
leaving this hacienda, we turned off from the Santa Rosa
cart road, passed between lofty mountain peaks, and
entered upon the vast plain of the Rio Bravo del Norte,
otherwise called the Rio Grande.*
Here we found immense quantities of flowers and
green foliage, among the plants and shrubbery. In some
places whole acres were as thickly covered and as beautiful
as any flower bed I ever saw. We saw, to-day, a
* Estate.
t Lundy usually calls by the name of the Rio Bravo, the river
now more usually known in the United States as the Rio Giraade.
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Lundy, Benjamin. The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti, book, 1847; Philadelphia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33004/m1/89/?q=american+indian: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.