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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
height and strength, bit its shape is suited to the
place and the stream in which it is built.
Should the water be sluggish, and little current,
the dam is straight; if turbulent, the dam is constructed of a convex form-the better to resist the
current, made much thicker and stronger, where the
action of the water is the greatest.
After many years, the water being spread over a
large space, often filled up by yearly accumulations,
seeds take root in the new made ground, and the old
beaver dam becomes a green meadow, or thickets of
young trees. The beaver subsists on the bark of
young trees; and when laying up a winter supply,
all the workers in the community unite their labors
of selecting, cutting up and carting the strips to their
common store-house under water.
"The beaver has two incisors and eight molars in
each jaw; and empty hollows where the camine teeth
might be. The upper pair of cutting teeth extend
far into the jaw, with a curve of rather more than a
semicircle; and the lower pair of incisors form rather less than a semicircle. Sometimes, one of these
teeth gets broken, and then the opposite tooth continues growing until it forms a nearly complete circle. The chewing muscle of the beaver is strengthened by tendons in such a way as to give it great
power. But mnre is needed to enable the beaver to
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