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Houston March 30 Sunday
Left at 9.25 A.M. for Orleans.
All day lam ping on the flat Coastal
Plain of Texas and Louisiana. Andree
is the land above 30 feet above the sea and
and other lies between 10 and 30 feet. Drumps
and cagons are common with Cypresses
around only Lam ping areas. About 8. P.M.
near in New Orleans. And at 8.45
lam off for the North on the Louisville
Mobile R.R. by way of Mobile, Ala.
and Montgomery Ala. A fine sunny day.
En route Home March 31 Monday
Left off at Montgomery at 6.20 A.M.
We are in a red clay country and it gets
colder as one go north. At Centum we
are in the Pre-Cambrian schists.
To the north and south of Atlanta
the country is very red and clay gilded
since the first are cut off.