Brazos

Brazos, formerly BRAZOS DE DIOS, a river of Texas, U.S., rising in a tableland called the Staked Plain, in the NW. of the state, and running 950 miles south-eastward, till it falls into the Gulf of Mexico about 40 miles SW. of Galveston. It is navigable at all times to a distance of 40 miles from its mouth, and at high-water for 250 miles.