Peach Creek, March 25th 1824.
Dear sir
In the course of six or eight days I shall finish the Leagues above
the base line, all except that part of the 1st 2nd and 3rd next to the
Colorado, which I cannot conveniently do at present, there being
no water in running below the base line. I want your advice,
whether I shall run two Leagues deep or one before I come to the
head of caney creek, if I do not make two, one will be very long, some
of these that I have run are above seven miles long, the next below
the base line will be seven or eight miles long, and perhaps nine.
The Leagues we plotted for Mr. Selkirk to run did not reach the
Prairie. I altered the plot and made three Leagues instead of two.
In one point more I want your advice, the course with which I have
run the seven first Leagues will not do to run the next, it runs too
much down the creek and does not come square enough to the
Prairie, the course being S 20° W. the same as Kincheloes line. I have
been down the Prairie fifteen or twenty miles and think a S. W.
course will not suit the best or perhaps S 60° W Send me an answer
by the first opportunity, if you please, sir.
I would give you a history of our late Indian fight, but the bearer
of this can give you an account of it, which will answer every
purpose,—
Sir, do not forget to write to my Brother, by yours, write him
that now is the time to come to this country, and that I have secured
him a tract of land if he will come soon, in so doing you will much
oblige
Seth Ingram [Rubric]
Col. S. F. Austin