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 TIIE WEST.
times while he gazes from the deck of a fine steamer
with every want fully supplied. Ascending the
river from Dalles, the country becomes more rolling,
but quite barren, to the low foot-hills of the Cascade
Range, when the heavy foiests (as in California on
the same range,) are brought out, as there, in greatness and beauty-then the very mountains themselves -and when the Cascades are reached you are
in the heart of the mountains.
The "Cascades" are several miles of rapids where
the river forces itself through the very heart of the
mountains. These are passed also by a railway
portage. The river seems shut back here, forming
a beautiful bay, with two small islands and heavily
wooded shores. Little above this bay is a sunken
forest a mile or two long and a half mile wide, mostly
covered by the waters of the river. This would
seem to be the resting place for the great waters
before rushing headlong through and down the irar
]row gorge. These few miles of railway, located
just above and along the struggling waters, furnish
views seldom equaled anywhere. The hight and picturesque grandeur of the mountains above the rapids
is so great, and one feels his littleness,(as in Yosemite,
which we shall visit,) that any description we could
give would be as nothing. It cannot be describedit can only be felt. Place half a dozen Hliglilands
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