Excerpt from The Port of Galveston and the State of Texas Very lovely is Galveston, this Oleander City of Texas, far from destitute of either picturesque prospects or urban charms. Far different too, its aspects, from those at its genesis, in 1837, when it was visited by the distinguished ornithologist Ando bon, who, beholding nothing more invit ing, of its site, than marsh and mud at, and its only rara avz's disporting in the well-ruffled plumage of the then new made Lone Star Republic, was not much impressed with the ...
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Excerpt from The Port of Galveston and the State of Texas Very lovely is Galveston, this Oleander City of Texas, far from destitute of either picturesque prospects or urban charms. Far different too, its aspects, from those at its genesis, in 1837, when it was visited by the distinguished ornithologist Ando bon, who, beholding nothing more invit ing, of its site, than marsh and mud at, and its only rara avz's disporting in the well-ruffled plumage of the then new made Lone Star Republic, was not much impressed with the place. The morass he saw has been converted since. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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