History of Eastland County, Texas

ISBN: 9781333491772 出版年：2018 页码：223 Mrs George Langston Forgotten Books

The northern slope of the eastern divide is drained by the two forks of Palo Pinto Creek, while the rest of the County is watered by the Leon, which rises just be yond the County's western limit, and makes its exit about three miles southwest of Desdemona. The eastern divide is characterized by high hills of numerous shapes, which lie, in the main, east and west. It is gashed with ragged ravines, and abounds in deep canyons, in confused and tilted rocks, producing a varied and picturesque scenery. This broken ridge of high land bends northward above the first impressions of Colony Creek, and dips again southward around Cisco, the tongues of the Brazos licking into the northern slope of the backbone, playing hide and seek with the foragers of the Leon and Colo rado on the south. As the great skeleton begins to pread itself westward, it leaves large canyons and gulches.