Excerpt from Texas Rice Book Those who have a taste for hunting, fishing, for fish and oysters, will be very hard to please if the Texas Coast. Country does not come up to their expectations. Texas has about five hundred miles of coast country, which is from twenty to forty miles in width - John Howard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.