Trip to the West And Texas Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles Throug
Trip to the West And Texas Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles Throug
Amos Andrew Parker
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I hope the delicate nerves of my fair readers may not greatly be disturbed at this ; if they are, they must close the book, and read no further ; for if I must tell " the whole truth, " I shall be obliged to state, that during the thirty following nights, I often slept in the same room with one or more la- dies ! The old lady had about twenty acres cleared and cultivated with corn ; but the land is not the first rate. The fact is, all along Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana, after you get sixty ...or seventy miles west of the Mississippi river, you come to light, sandy, hilly land : generally covered with pitch pine ; ex- AND TEXAS. -r47 cepting a narrow strip on the margin of the streams ; so that half of Missouri, three-fourths of Arkansas, and half of Louisiana, are poor land, hardly fit for cultivation. This is not what I had supposed ; but from my own observations, and the information of travellers, I believe this to be the fact. We took an early start, and travelled on. The northern people have been accused of being very inquisitive ; but I am sure I would turn out the peo- ple here against them on a wager.
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