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.

I)ISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CON'TINENT.
ods, we stop to linger around this most wonderful
of histories. Strange, indeed, that this great conti nent should have lain undiscovered for so many cen turies, but the mass of malnkind had made but little
improvement over the darkness of the middle ages.
The navigators of those times felt themselves safe
only as they crept along the frequented coast. But
to turn their little insecure vessels boldly to the
West-to embark upon an unkntown ocean,i not be lieved to have an outer shlore, to pass that bourne
from wh'ch no traveler had ever returned, and fromn
which experience had not taught that any mariiner
could return-was beyond their feeble comprehensions; but the fullness of time had come. The Empires of the first and oldest portions of the human
famni]ly must flourish and fall before the great seals
of creation are broken. They must show what they
could do for the amelioration of the human race, before Providence unlocks the great mystery of His
mysterious creation.
A noble man, who can go out boldly and with con
fidence, on untrodden, unknown regions, either on
sea or land, is like the great luminary when compared to a small planet.
The magnanimous Ruler of the Universe seems
to bind up great events in the lives of some men.
Those individuals who stratify the space of time
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