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.

CHAPTER XXVI.
EASTERN OREGON - SOII - CLIMATE- RESOURCES AND
GENERAL FEATURES.
A day's stage-ride from Boise City, the tourist
crosses the Snake River into Oregon, without noticing any remarkable change, save crossing the geographical line which the river makes a little more
prominent, as it runs north through the rather beautiful, deep valleyv-forming a very natural, running
boundary line between two great territories. As
usual, we are among barren mountains, relieved occasionally by a growth of evergreen trees, upon their
otherwise naked slopes; sand plains, with their usual productions; a few patches of bunch grass to the
acre, with the usual presence of that indigenous,
prolific shrub, wild sage. In the Blue Mountains,
we crossed thle Round Prairie, thirty miles by about
thirteen, as level as a lake or a house floor, symmetrically enclosed by almost perpendicular, smooth
mountain walls-the solid and beautiful masonry of
Nature. It seems to be the bed of an old lake, re
minding one of the rich, black loam of Iowa, unusual
for the country, producing an abundance of excellent grass, good wheat and barley, and some of the
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