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local glaciers on the San Bernardino Mountains, as shown by well- 
preserved cirques and moraines. The moraines do not extend far 
beyond the cirques, and there are no typical glaciated valleys. The 
detritus is angular, and the boulders are not striated. A typical 
cirque on the northeast side of San Gorgonio Mountain is about 1,500 
feet long, 1,000 feet wide, and 1,200 feet deep. It contains a terminal 
moraine 250 feet high and two small recessional moraines that mark 
stages in the shrinking of the glacier. Doubtless the last glacial ice 
disappeared many centuries ago. Other features of former glaciation 
occur at the head of Hathaway Creek, just north of San Bernardino 
Mountain, where there was a tongue of ice about a mile long. None 
of these glaciers extended below an elevation of 8,500 feet, and they 
were all on the northward-facing slopes.” 
North of Banning is the Morongo Indian Reservation. Padre 
Font, who was the chronicler of Anza’s expedition in 1774, described 
some Indians living hereabouts whom they named Danzarines (Span- 
ey VANE WAG 
FIGURE 65.—Section from Banning, Calif., north to San Bernardino Mountain. After Vaughan 
ish danzarin, a fine dancer), because of their habit of gesticulating 
constantly while talking. 
A short distance east of Beaumont the railroad passes through the 
wide saddle between the San Jacinto and San Bernardino Ranges at 
an elevation very near 2,600 feet, leaving the drainage basin of the 
Gulf of California and entering a region where the streams flow directly 
into the Pacific Ocean, which at its nearest point lies 55 miles almost 
due southwest of Beaumont. 
Beaumont is an agricultural settlement and year-round resort. 
From Beaumont west there is a down grade past Nicklin and Hinda 
ical sidings into the San Timoteo Canyon, which leads to 
ane the Santa Ana River. In the upper part of this can- 
Population 1,332. yon there are at intervals fine views of the mountains 
New Creans L921 to the north, but finally high banks cut off the view. 
Canyon is excavated in a deposit of 
loam, sand, gravel, and cobblestones of Pleistocene age. These ma- 
8% Cirques are steep-walled semi- 8? Fairbanks, H. W., and Carey, 
circular recesses in the high mountain | E. P., Science, new ser., vol. 31, pp- 
slopes, produced by glacial erosion, | 32-33, 1910. Vaughan, F. E., Cali- 
and moraines are ridges of coarse ice- | fornia Univ. Dept. Geology Bull., 
borne detritus that accumulates along | vol. 13, p. 335, 1922. 
the margin of glaciers as the ice melts. 
