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Polytechnic Institute has obtained its weekly supply of fresh frogs for dis- 

 section and microscopic study from this canyon, because it was freer from 

 dense vegetation than the others, and thus frogs could be more easily seen 

 and caught here. It is enclosed as pasture land. The canyon commences 

 near the foot of Wilson Avenue. 



Mission Canyon (also called "Wild Grape canyon"). — It rises as far 

 north as California street east of Bandini Avenue, on the Bayard Smith 

 tract, and is the longest and largest of the Glacial Terrace series of canyons. 

 It has been specially noted for the abundance and fine quality of its wild 

 grapes, from the days of the padres down to the present time. The old 

 distilling works connected with B. D. Wilson's original winery stood on the 

 west bluff at the mouth of this canyon. 



TULE LAKE, IN SAN MARINO CANYON. 



Barley hay on the slope amongst Ih-e oak trees. This is one of the historic canyons which supplied water 



by a ditch to the San Gabriel Mission and village, from about the year IHUO. 



San Marino Canyon.— This is a shorter but more rugged gorge or 

 gap down through the bluff a few rods east from Mission canyon, and has 

 a large tule lagoon or private duck pond, besides one or two dams and reser- 

 voirs lower down, and belongs to the San Marino ranch. On the high bluff 



