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| | Notes of a military reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of ... |
 | | There was a noble emulation in the conduct of regulars and volunteers, which, in no small degree bcnefitted the service; while, at the same time, it promoted that cordiality in their intercourse, which will make their future meetings, in the more peaceful walks of life, a gladsome event to both. |
 | | Feeling no desire to go over the same ground twice, I struck off on the table lands to the west, and found them a succession of roiling sand hills, with Obione canescens, Franseria acanthocarpa, yerba del sapa of the Mexicans, and occasionally, at very long intervals with scrub cedar, about as high as the boot-top. |
 | | No fact proves the indolence and incapacity of the Mexican for sport or for war more glaringly, than that these immense flights of sand-cranes and geese are found quietly feeding within gunshot distance of their houses and largest towns. |
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