Garces was well treated and rested here five days.
* This name, by the way, has no connection with the notorious "Arizona" diamond swindle of more recent years.

It bore this name in Ives's time and the swindle was much later--1872.

The alleged diamond field also was not in Arizona at all, but in north-western Colorado.
Soon after leaving this retreat he "halted at the sight of the most profound canones which ever onward continue, and within these flows the Rio Colorado." "There is seen [he continues] a very great Sierra which in the distance looks blue, and there runs from the southeast to the north-west a pass open to the very base, as if the sierra were cut artificially to give entrance to the Rio Colorado into these lands.

I named this singular pass Puerto de Bucareli,* and though to all appearances would not seem to be great the difficulty of reaching thereunto, I considered this to be impossible in consequence of the difficult canones which intervened.
From this position said pass bore east northeast." * After the viceroy.
The padre is standing in admiration before the long line of the Kaibab seen as a great sierra from this position on the south-east, and as the land on the south rises toward the rim it probably appeared to him as if the sierra were really a continuation of the San Francisco Mountains on his right, and was cut in twain by the great gorge of the river.

From his standpoint he looked up Marble Canyon, and all the directions he mentions are exactly correct.