Part 1, Note 24

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The Austin Papers, vol. 1, pp. 689-690; Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas, p. 42; Telegraph & Texas Register, June 8, 1837. Dewees was apparently with Austin when he visited the site, and in an advertisement in the newspaper cited above, equated that site with the site of Columbus, which he had recently established.