On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garces (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and ed., with copious critical notes

On the trail of a Spanish pioneer; the diary and itinerary of Francisco Garcés (missionary priest) in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California, 1775-1776; translated from an official contemporaneous copy of the original Spanish manscript, and e - Page 21

322 ARROYO DE SAN BERNABE. June io. I traveled five leagues east, and arrived at the Arroyo de San Bernabe/ which runs in part and • The Arroyo de San Bernabe is now called Truxton wash, and GarceV mileage sets him at or near Truxton spring, on the railroad. The railroad takes a very crooked course to get here, first continuing northeast from Hualapais station to flank Pea­cock mountains on the north, then turning at a right angle southeast to run down to Hackberry, then curving around to the north to run up into Truxton wash nearly to Truxton spring before it makes more easting. Garces went more directly through or past Hackberry into the wash. This is the defile through what are called Cottonwood cliffs; these are simply the northward extension of the Aquarius range, and are themselves extended unbroken northwestward by the Grand Wash cliffs, bounding the upper part of Hualapai valley on the east and northeast The whole extent of cliffs is the Aulick range of Beale ( Rep., p. 66, Oct 6, 1857). Truxton spring is one of the few place- names we owe to Beale ( Rep., p. 79, Jan. 28, 1858); Truxton was one of his men, but whether the spring now called Truxton is the one originally so named may' be a question. It is situated on the railroad, three miles west-southwest of Truxton station, a mile and a half south of Crozier spring, and about three miles north of Cottonwood spring. To judge from Ives' map, Truxton spring is the same as that called Peacock's spring by Ives for one of his men: see his camp-mark " 65 " ( which certainly is not near the position of Peacock spring of our latest G. L. O. and U. S. G. S. maps, this being over 12 miles off, on the other side of Peacock mountains). The circumstances of Ives' naming this spring are these, p. 97: " Mar. 31. Leaving the Cerbat basin, the course lay towards a low point in the extension [ Cottonwood cliffs] of Aquarius mountains- another chain almost parallel to the Black and Cer­bat ranges. The gap much resembles the Railroad Pass. After entering it the trail took a sudden turn to the north, in which