The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

INSCRIPTION ROCK.
the kingdom of Cibola, and penetrated the country as far as
the pueblo of Zuni, or what was then known as the city of
Cibola. Of his expedition we have no reliable information.
Upon the western slope of the Sierra Madre, and not far
from the still existing pueblos of Acoma and Lacina, of
which we shall speak in a succeeding chapter of this work,
stands a very remarkable rock, called by the Spaniards "El
Moro," and by the Americans "Inscription Rock," which is
thus described by the Abb6 Domenech: -
"The front of this rock, which faces the northeast, is
vertical, and of a natural polish up to two hundred and ten
feet of its height. On this side the base is covered with
Indian hieroglyphics and Spanish inscriptions. The opposite declivity has the form of a bastion, and possesses a
spring of translucent water, which bubbles up at its foot
from amid a circular basin surrounded by verdure. The
summit of the rock is of white sandstone, interveined with
yellow. It is perpendicularly split in several places, so
that at a distance it perfectly resembles the turrets of a
moresque castle, from which circumstance it evidently derives its name of'El Moro.' Upon the smooth surface of
this rock the Indians, as well as the old Spaniards, were
accustomed to record the object or success of their journeys
through the country."
The oldest inscription to be found upon it is in the lower
left-hand corner, and is almost effaced by time and the
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