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Show 348 PUERTO DE BUCARILLI. I named this singular ( pass) Puerto de Bucareli, 2* and though to all appearances would not seem to be very *• Puerto de Bucareli, so named by Garces for the great viceroy, is the Grand canon of the Colorado itself. It may seem singular to give the name of a " pass " to an utterly impassable place; but the impassability is for man, not for the river, which Garces distinctly says passes through his Puerto de Bucareli. His use of the term " sierra," and reference to blue distance, have caused some to misapprehend the Puerto de Bucareli for a mountain pass, and locate it off somewhere northwest of the Colorado. But Garces repeatedly speaks of the* cliffs which wall in Cataract canon, for example, as " sierras "; while, as for a puerto being a river gorge, compare the name Puerto de la Concepcion for the narrow place through which-the Colorado flows just below Yuma. The formation in question is duly lettered on Font's map, where the legend is set against the river itself, with no mountain pass about it. There are three points in Garces' description which enable us to identify the puerto with considerable precision: ( i) From his position it bears E. N. E. ( 2) It runs from S. E. to N. W. ( 3) He says beyond that the Colorado Chiquito falls into the Colorado Grande above the Puerto de Bucareli. Now, if anyone would like to see the Puerto de Bucareli in all its grandeur, he has only to leave the railroad at Flagstaff, and drive some 75 miles N. by W. over the wagon road opened of late years to strike the Grand canon at the point where it dips furthest S. Here, at Canon spring, is about where Garces named the puerto. At Canon spring, on the brink of the great chasm, the general level of the plateau is about 7,500 feet; whence the face of the earth drops down 5,000 feet in the course of five or six miles, and there in the bottom of the abyss runs the Colorado through the Puerto de Bucareli, only 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. South of the Grand canon, in Garces' present vicinity, the most conspicuous landmark is the isolated elevation known as |