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.
Wallamet for many miles, are large trees marsh;,tel
Iup the hill side and overtopped in the gorges, cavid
absorbing the very sunlighit in their stately masses;
while those near the road seem bending down to the
very roadside to see who comes so quietly, over the
smooth, sandy road, into their ancient solitude.
Portland lies in the real heart of Western Oregon.
The almost inaccessible Cascade Mountain ranges,
rulning north and south, form a very natural division
of Oregon, making an Eastern and Western Territory. That portion of the State west of the mountains, is embraced in three large valleys-the Wallamet, Umpqtua, and the Rouge River, together with
a narrow strip of land lying on the coast, with the
Columbia River for a northern boundary. The Coast
Mountains and the Cascades, quite inaccessible on
the east, make of necessity a geographical division of
the State.
The territory lying between these two ranges, is
divided by three transverse mountain ranges separating the valleys, of which the Wallamet is much
the largest and most productive.
The Wallamet River, like most others of this country, is troubled with falls. Twenty-five miles from
'ts mouth are falls furnishing the largest water power in the State. Above the falls, the water forms a
large basin, and is smooth until within a half-mile of
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