toward the other side. This point. is intended for public use. The Society has its storage warehouse, weapons, cannons, and supply houses here, as well as the public buildings for the general-commissary of the same and its officials. This height offers a nice and elevated view of the whole town, the neighboring hills, woods and valleys for several miles distant. The streets of the town of New Braunfels are laid out wide and regular. Seguin and San Antonio Streets (laying in the direction of the towns whose names they bear), cross at the public square in the center of town, where a bell is mounted by which the inhabitants are summoned together for public occasions.

At the end of the year 1845, 300 wooden houses were already standing, and one was very busily occupied building still more. The population was then estimated to be 1500 souls. Wood was at first sawed by hand; however, the Comal offers the most suitable points in the world for mill sites and already all actions were taken by the commissariat for that. In the future the buildings will probably be constructed of stone, since a quarry of very excellent quality is located nearby.

At the beginning of this year there were found in this young town a well assorted merchandise store, 6 grocery stores, 1 silversmith, 1 coppersmith, 1 saddler, 6 shoemaker shops, 3 farriers, 2 gunsmiths, 4 cabinet makers, 1 carriage builder, 1 locksmith, 2 tannaries, 3 cigar factories, 1 baker, and 1 painter.

A 40-foot wide road, laid out under the direction of Lieutenant Bene and Captain Murchison, leads in am northwesterly direction across the hills up to the northern branch of the Pierdenales(16)- which is a tributary of the navigable Colorado.-where Friedrichsburg (17) (also called Friedrichstadt) 15 miles* distant, which is being laid out in an attractive, 4 mile* wide valley, filled with springs and creeks and the finest wood for lumber. 1000 families have already arrived there.

At the same time the engineers have extended the road 4 miles* farther northwest as far as the Llano, where then the town of Jordan will be laid out, and 8 miles* farther in the same direction, arrangements are being made for a fourth settlement which will be in the land that the Society purchased from Fisher and Company and designated for German colonization. Further particulars can be found in Kenedy Topography etc. of Texas.

(16) Pierdenales - Pedernales River.

(17) Friedrichsburg - Fredericksburg.