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up to from a much lower plain. This is Moore's peak, in honor of Col. Jno. M. Moore, of Corpus Christi, who accompanied me in most of the trip, rendering essential assistance.

The Staked Plain extends southward from the northern part of the State, to near the northern bounderies of Medina, Uvalde and Kinney counties, northeast of San Antonio. In its southern portion it had a height of about one thousand feet. At the far north it is often five thousand or more feet high. On the El Paso stage road, west of Fort Concho, its highest portions east of the Pecos are about three thousand feet. West of the Pecos, at Fort Stockton, it is three thousand feet high. On the road from Fort Stockton to Fort Davis, its limestones are seen a few miles west of Leon springs, at an elevation of a little more than three thousand feet; thence it trends westward and northwestward, being the northern boundary of the Toyah valley, and also of the valley of Eagle springs, being readily distinguished by its flat topped limestone mountains of the cretaceous period.

It is not now all a plain, as it once was long, long ago. That it was all plain is proven by its nearly horizontal strata, so like in appearance and thickness throughout the entire region, as to prove that the whole was once continuous and unbroken. Now it is intersected by rivers and valleys, the largest river and valley being that of the Pecos. Viewed from the top of many of its mountains, it presents the appearance of a vast plain, with here and there a mesa or table, a few feet higher than the rest.

For the convenience of reference, the following table of freights along the route are given: