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ranca I called Camp Diaz, after Mexico’s 
president. 
The Grand Barranca of the Urique is 
one of the most massive pieces of nature’s 
architecture that the world affords. It is 
quite similar in some respects to the 
Grand Canon of the Colorado, and this 
is the nearest to which I can compare it 
in the United States. The latter, grand 
as the scenery undoubtedly is, soon tires 
by its monotonous aspect of perpendicular 
walls in traveling any distance, while the 
Grand Barranca could be followed as far 
as it deserves the name of “ grand ” and 
every view and every vista would have 
some startling and attractive change to 
please the eye. It is a “cross” between 
the Grand Canon of the Colorado and 
the Yosemite Valley—if we can imagine 
such scenery after seeing both. Were 
