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From the Presidio we marchedWest twenty-two miles, to a village!of 70v) souls, called Nara, close towhich we encamped. Our road this'day lay over a dead level prairie,without a drop of water, hounded jfar otr to the Southward by a low» • • range of mountains, running Eastland West. This prniiie has every*Iwhere for its foundation a solid lime- j(Stone. Nara is an agricultural vil-ll*£o, as are tlie two villages of Sanl O 'Juan and Morcloo, each a mile or ■I two from it, and wliich \vc did notvilt;it. It is well watered by a sinali, clear stream of delightful water, | which runs everywhere through the•» nvillage, and irrigotes very extensiven jfields. ()u the road we learned, what has since been confirmed, thatthere were no Mexican troops atMonclova or Saltillo, ami that Col.C astaneda, who had been in com-1,:nand at Presidio with some two' hundred men, had been deserted hv his inen, and gone on to Saltillo withr\\\lt; o. 111* p r*4-
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Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1847
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