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Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Photograph Taken Near Langtry by W. L. Bray Sotol or Bear Grass, an Abundant Desert Plant of the Agave Area THE LAND 67 nearly a fourth of the state, the Colorado a sixth, the Reda tenth, and the Rio Grande a twelfth. The eastern edgesof the regions bounded by the scarps already mentioned aredeeply cut into by the headwaters of the rivers. Thosementioned, especially the Colorado, are old rivers, geo-
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From R. T. Hill, Twenty-first Annual Report of U. S. Geological Survey Contour Map of Texas graphically speaking, the rivers of the Coastal Plain beingrelatively young. Hundreds of cubic miles of middleand west Texas have, during the later geological ages, beencarried southeastward by these old rivers. With the ex-ception of the western mountains and the Balcones Scarp(caused by a relative uprising of the Edwards Plateau) the 68 THE BOOK OF TEXAS hills of Texas are water made, are merely harder portionsof the earth which have so far not been carried to lowerlevels by the rains. The Callahan Divide, for example, isa land bridge composed of remnants of strata whichelsewhere to the north and south of it have entirely washed away. All the rivers are subject to great rises that carry down im-mense quantities of silt which are deposited by overflowson the lowlands. The banks of the rivers are sometimeshigher than the valley behind; one of the interesting feat-ures of irrigation along the lo

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