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punchbowl." I failed to discover anything satanic about the place, or its 

 great granite tureens of pure mountain water, and concluded to dehoof and 

 dehorn it, and introduce it into good society without any "devilish" primo- 

 geniture attachment. The Punchbowl Falls are 70 feet high ; and the 

 bowl or "pothole " was so deep, smooth and steep- walled that I could not 

 get down to measure it. The Saucer Falls, lower down, are 25 feet high ; 

 and the saucer measured 2 feet, 10 inches depth of water. Above this fall 

 is a chute of 15 feet, and below it one of about 18 feet. These falls are 

 about three-quarters of a mile up from the main Millard canyon, or Grand 

 canyon as it is called above this point. 



Grand Canyon. — This comprises that portion of the great mountain 

 gorge from above Millard Falls up to Crystal Springs, and the Alpine Club 

 house station on the Mount lyowe Electric railroad. It is the portion which 

 bore the old Spanish name of "Canyon el Blanco," from the white rocks 

 that form its north wall. About half a mile below the club house is Grand 

 Canyon Falls, 92 feet high, deeply recessed by erosional wear in the 

 great ledge of reddish syenite rock. 



Alpine Falls. — A few rods west, below the Grand Canyon Falls, 

 a narrow, deep-gorged branch canyon enters from the north with a very 

 high fall, which I did not succeed in measuring, but thought it must be 

 at least 130 feet high in its front line of single leap ; and I have not 

 been able to learn of anybody ever attempting to measure either of these 

 falls, or write any account of them, before. They are now (August, 1895) 

 very difficult of access ; but the Alpine Club will make a footpath to reach 

 them, both above and below, from their club house. When I first visited 

 these falls in July, 1893, there was a little water passing over; in August, 

 September and October thej' are usually dry precipices, but during the 

 rainy season they are grand mountain cataracts. 



Chapman's Glen, where the famous Yankee "pirate prisoner" got out 

 pine timbers for the old church at the plaza in Los Angeles. [See pages 43 to 

 52.] Hon. Stephen C. Foster told me that he once went with some Spanish 

 hunters up through La Canyada ; and Tejunga canyon was pointed out as 

 the place where timbers were cut for "building the old church." This 

 was true, but they were for the old church at San Fernando Mission — not 

 at Los Angeles. [See footnote, pages 46-47.] May 27, 1895, I stayed over 

 night at E. W. Giddings's house, then the next day walked up the water- 

 course of Millard canyon from its mouth clear to Crystal Springs, in order 

 to satisfy myself whether it was a preposterous supposition that Chapman 

 had brought timbers down that way. And I had spent the whole day twice 

 before on the same errand, December i and December 26, 1894. Then, 

 again, August 25, 1895, Mrs. Reid made the hard and dangerous climb with 

 me from Crystal Springs down around the Grand Canyon Falls, into the 



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