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Eagle Rock. [Just where the county road now runs. — Ed.] The vast Ar- 

 royo gorge from F. R. Harris's lot on the south, up to Mundell's chain of 

 lots on the north, is called Giant's Glen, and is a weird, wild, romantic place 

 to ramble in." 



The above-named ownerships have all changed. Jumbo Knob remains 

 in its place, looking like the famous big elephant's head bdng at rest, with 

 his trunk reaching down almost to the Arroyo in search of water, the same 

 as before. But the buzzards have been driven from their ancient cliflf ; and 

 Fremont's trail [although Fremont never rode within ten miles of it], and 

 Wildcat canyon and Giant's Glen have all been obliterated by Mr. Scoville's 

 extensive improvements. [See " Fremont's Trail," page 68.] 



Along the banks of the Arroyo, from Eincoln Park far up into the 

 mountains, there are numerous springs, from which Pasadena derives her 

 water supply. These are all mentioned and described by name in another 

 place. But the most notable point in the Arroyo Seco is 



Devil's Gate, — which was so named by Judge B. S. Eaton in 1858 ; 

 and the reason for it he writes me thus : 



"From its resemblance to a point of that name on the Sweetwater 

 creek, the last water that is seen running east and finding its way into the 

 Gulf of Mexico, as seen from the old California trail by which I came to 

 California with ox teams in 1850. This Arroyo Seco break through the 

 spur of the Verdugo hills corresponds so perfectly with that of the Sweet- 

 water, that when I first saw it I was carried back to my trip over the 

 Rockies. ' ' 



Cottonwood Canyon. — On the west side of the Arroyo Seco, between 

 Devil's Gate and lyinda Vista, there is a small canyon where N. G. Yocum 

 made two tunnels in 1887, obtaining a small supply of water, and it was 

 then called Yocum's canyon. In 1892 it was taken by the endorsers of a 

 certain promissory note, through their trustee and attorney, W. S. Wright, 

 who organized the "Cottonwood Canyon Water Co.," and gave the place 

 this name because some cottonwood (?) trees [California poplar] were growing 

 there. This company was incorporated October 29, 1892. [See "Water 

 Companies."] 



Wildcat Canyon. — This name was given by the early settlers to the 

 canyon where the Scoville drive meanders up the west Arroyo hills to 

 Scoville Heights; and the old Garfias trail (miscalled "Fremont's trail") 

 was on the ridge that formed the north side of this canyon. 



Fern Canyon. — The gap through the Arroyo west hills where the 

 county road from Scoville's bridge leads through onto the Johnson farm, was 

 given this name by Hon. Delos Arnold in the spring of 1881, from his 

 finding some rare ferns there ; and the name remained. 



San Rafael Canyon, or Creek (Johnson's creek). — This descends 

 from the west and enters the Arroyo Seco nearly opposite the foot of West 



