298 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW. JULY, 1899 Quanejuato) ............. Silao ................. Tnxpan. .............. Zapotlsn (Seminarlo) the greatest that had occurred for several years prior to that time. The following extract from a letter, dated Navasota, Tex., August 18, 1899, from Hon. Rufus Grimes, who has resided in Grimes County in the neighborhood of seventy years, is an interesting bit of flood history pertaining to the Brazos River : In regard to the overflows of the Braros River my information comes from several men who had been re eatedly tirough portions of Texas previous to the introduction b S. I!. Austin of his 300 families aa colonists. These men told my fatter when I was a small boy (Mr. Grimes was born in 1819), and told me after I had attained the age of maturity, that the Brazos River had not been out of ita banks for over thirty years until 1823, when there was a great overflow. The next overflow was in 1833, which came in May of that year; this overflow was considered by the early settlers the greatest overflow that had ever been known by white eople in the streams west of the Mississippi River. I paased over tie prairie where the present City of Y avasota now stand
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