10 Our Araby 



Cathedral Cauon is about seven miles soutlieast 

 of Palm Springs, opening to the west of the main 

 road down the valley. There is a fair automobile 

 road into the carion, but to reach the narrows a 

 rough walk of two miles further is required, which 

 by most people would not be thought worth while. 

 There are a few palms and sometimes a little water. 



Chino Caiion is the wide-mouthed caiion which 

 opens to the west of the main road a mile or two 

 north of Palm Springs. No practicable road runs 

 into the caiion, but a trail (formerly a wagon- 

 road) may be picked out, roughly following the 

 pipe-line. In the neck of the canon there is a 

 cienaga (marshy meadow) and a fine grove of 

 cottonwoods: also a group of palms beneath which 

 is a warm spring which makes a luxurious natural 

 bathing-place: adjacent is a stream of cold moun- 

 tain water. Near the point where the caiion narrows 

 to a gorge there is a cave that is worth visiting; 

 and continuing one comes to a cliff of about 5000 

 feet sheer. Fine views of the desert are obtainable. 

 If the return trip be made by moonlight a weird 

 effect may be observed, produced by the reflected 

 light from the mountains on either side. Time 

 needed, two or three hours each way, as the trail is 

 rough. 



The "Coral Reef." This is of course no coral 

 reef nor is it anything like one. It is simply a part 

 of the mountain wall on the southwest side of the 

 Coachella Valley, some twenty-five miles from Palm 



