Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

NORTH PARK.
such a necessary evil.) You will take no thought
of what you shall have for dinner, or as to what you
are to wear, but take whatever you have and be
thankful.
I fo)und in Middle Park Pr fessor Powell, of Illinois, at the head of a scientific explo(ring expedition. The party was made lup of a (l)zel or more
young men, interested in various departments of
natural science, giving their time and labor for the
enterprise, and for the benefits they expected to
derive from it —information anid health. They were
spending the summer in the parks and mountains
adjoining, taking notes with barometer and thermometer, and collecting all the vegetable productions, animals, birds and fish. The field of observation
and investig,ation undertaken by this enterprise is
important to the scientific world. They have before
them an almost unbounded field of study in physical
geography, geology and natural history, as they in
tend to explore the great western division of Colorado, now comp)aratively unknown. But few have
crossed it! Adventurous miners have penetrated
into some of its valleys, but it has no real popula
tion, anid is unknown as much or more so than any
other part of our country The mountain ranges
lean down through it into the great interior bosom
of the farther southwest, instead of breaking off, af
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