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TEXAS.
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contain valuable metallic.ore, with quarries of marble,
limestone, granite, and beds of gypsum and
anthracite coal.
The Agua Fria rises in the Valley of Flowers,
which contains above ten thousand acres, about a
third prairie, and the remainder woodland. Manufacturing
establishments might be formed with advantage
in this charming valley.
The Piedernales River flows through a district
almost entirely elevated table-land; its banks are
very steep, and its bottoms not exceeding from one
to three hundred yards in width. These bottoms
are covered with a thick growth of cypress, and are
bounded by perpendicular rocks, frequently three
hundred feet in height. Ascending the rock from
the cypress bottom, there appears an extensive
sweep of rich musquit prairie, abounding in musquit
timber, with insulated groves of live and post oak
and cedar. This land would produce, cotton and
sugar, and is admirably adapted for grazing and
the culture of small grains.
About twenty-five miles from the Colorado, on a
north-western branch of the Piedernales, is a rock,
considered one of the natural curiosities of Texas.
It is about two hundred feet high, of an oval form,
and half embedded in the soil. It is composed of
parti-coloured flints, and reflects the sunbeams with
great brilliancy. A spring gushing forth near its
summit sprinkles its sides with water. Owing, it
is supposed, to the presence of some phosphoric
substance, it wears an illuminated aspect on dark
iights. This rock is held sacred by the Indians,
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Kennedy, William. Texas: the rise, progress, and prospects of the Republic of Texas, Vol.1, book, January 1, 1841; London. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2389/m1/220/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.