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"Into tumbled,
Where does the granite weather out as in
or common elsewhere, into great subangular
tumbled masses, but because of the large
and easily fracturing crystals breaks down
into an angular small jotted ashore.
Here the ground is light red in color due to
the pink feldspars of the granite. Where the
granite is actually at the surface it now
that it grinds freely and heals up granularly.
In places the ground has sand, cream quartz
out of pegmatite veins. In other places sand
but rarely the granite takes in a dry orecell or-
stellation and here heals up more freely.
We go further 15 to 20 miles on this
granite floor to a considerable ranch house
and post office known as Redstone and here
go through a fence and south to the north
side of the Redstone Dike. The vegetation on
this granite floor is markedly different. Wee
buccaas and mescal along with red bunches
that grows like green,
coarse grass, and ragulation grass is
in evidence. It's cattle country. Hydran