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.

THIE CLIMATE OF COLORADO.
perisonis. supposed to be hopelessly consumptive, able
only to travel in wagons, lying upon feather beds,
who, after crossing the plains and living in the mounitains a while, recovered, so that they enjoyed a comfortable degree of health for years after. High
regions and invigorating air, away from salt water,
seems to be precisely what is needed.
The climate varies with the altitude, and is salubrious and invigorating at any highlit; if it were not
so, the gold hunter would have been more sadly
disappointed, considering the labor and exposure to
which he was-subjected. The settler here seldom
suffers in acclimation, he will generally become
rejuvenated-endowed with a new stock of constitutional vigor. Lung diseases, which in low countrv
climates are so common and often so fatal, are almost
surely cured ili this hitgh arid arid atmosphere. I
was told that in some sections, it was so healthy
that a man had to be killed to start a burying-ground.
These mountain ranges send forth great fountain,s of
health in exhilarating air, in natutre's great fountains
of wonderful beauty.'They may indeed hold out
inducements for all to come to them for wealth, for
invigorating health, for relief and restoration. They
may with propriety be called the Mother Mounta-ins.
The climate of that portion lying east of the mountains is delightful and healthy. Thie frosts come
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