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Transcription
"Then had lunch at Stroganov's home
and met his wife. She does not look like
a Russian. Her folks originally came
from Holland and settled
in Russia 200 years ago.
After lunch took one in his car to
the San Xavier mission, nine miles out
of Tucson. The out scenery about Tucson
is striking, and all of the lower land is
a cactus covered Holson plain. The out
is the main one of lava flows, breccias
and ash tuffs rather than Miocene
case than older. There is also an Archeozoic
granite,
another of Post Carboniferous
age that has metum all round the earth,
and a third one of primary late Cretaceous age.
formations, but the older granites are
schists (Pinal).
The Pinal schist is the basement of Arizona
and is of the same general age as the Vishnu
of the Grand Canyon. It is curly granites and
divides."