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THE SANTA FE ROUTE, 
Monrovia station is in the southern part of Monrovia, an old 
settlement lying against the foot of the mountains. West of Mon- 
rovia the railway swerves to the northwest for 2 
miles and then goes west through the small towns of 
Population 33 bes Arcadia, Santa Anita, and Lamanda Park into Pasa- 
sasCity 1,790miles. dena. There is a gradual ascent in this part of the 
line for about 350 este 
- About 34 miles south of Lamanda Park is the San Gabriel Mission, 
one of the 21 missions established by the Franciscans between San 
Diego and San Francisco. It is in an excellent state of preserva- 
tion and is typical of the architecture introduced by the friars. (See 
Fl, XLI, B; p. 168.) 
Pasadena is situated in a “rinc6én’”’ or corner between the San 
Gabriel Range, which bears off to the northwest, and the San Rafael 
Hills,t which rise as rocky sidges nearly 1,000 feet 
high west of northwest of the city. It is undoubtedly 
Pan ation Steet. these features which give Pasadena certain climatic 
Population 30,29 
Kansas City 1, 200 mies conditions ee from cold winds and slightly 
greater rainfall than that in some of the regions farther 
east and south) that make it particularly attractive as a winter 
resort. The name Pasadena is an Indian word meaning crown of 
the valley. Here the railway turns south to reach South Pasadena 
and thence goes southwest for several miles, over a low pass 
through the hills separating the Pasadena Plain from the Los Angeles 
Valley. The portion of these hills near the railway consists of soft 
buff sandstones and shales,’ gently flexed in broad basins and arches. 
As the train leaves South Pasadena it enters the valley of the 
Arroyo Seco, which it follows to Los Angeles River, in the northern 
part of the city of Los Angeles. The city is built on the low river 
terraces, on the inner edge of the coastal plain which extends west 
and south to the Pacific Ocean, and on the hills of folded and faulted 
Tertiary sandstone and shale which rise above the plain and the 
terraces. Los Angeles River itself, like other streams of the arid 
Southwest, is a river in name only except during the heavy rains of 
Monrovia. 
Elevation 432 Teet. 
Pasadena. 
‘The San Rafael Hills are part of a 
low mountain block of granites and 
schists believed to have been unlifted 
between two faults trending west-north- 
West, parallel to a great fault here extend- 
ing along the south foot of the San Gabriel 
Mountains. A part of the southern slope 
of these hills between Pasadena and Glen- 
dale is made up of heavy sandstone of 
Tertiary age. Eagle Rock, a well-known 
topographic feature here, is a picturesque 
_ outcrop of this sandstone 
2 The rocks of the Monterey group are of 
time (see p. ii) the Coastal Plain region was 
submerged by the sea at intervals and the 
sands and muds were deposited in wide 
estuaries and along beaches. There wasa 
long epoch of general subsidence, and a 
great thickness of these materials thus 
accumulated. ey have since been 
uplifted, bent, and faulted, and later 
terraces and plains were developed across 
the surface. 
