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Updated: May 24, 2025
In some places it is green, where the gramma-grass has formed a sward; but in most parts it is sterile as the Sahara. Here it appears brown, where the sun-parched earth is bare; there it is of a sandy, yellowish hue; and yonder the salt effervescence renders it as white as the snow upon which we stand. The scant vegetation clothes it not in a livery of verdure.
These, however, reached but a few feet from the water's edge, while the grove timber ran out several hundred yards into the plain. About this grove there was a peculiarity. Its central part was not timbered, but open, and covered only with a smooth sward of gramma-grass. It was, in fact, a glade, nearly circular in shape, and about a hundred yards in diameter.
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