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.
country in the West. No old nurse or son of Escu
lapius was skillful enough to keep the image asleep
in such a lodging place. This gate purpose to life,
his mind had long flowed and made a deep channel
in this direction. The marvelous tenacity with
which he clung to the object he had set in his
heart is without a parallel, and will go down through
the long tracks of time. No obstacles can stop a
lofty plurpose, or outward darkness quench the light
of a great, a noble soul, undismayed by difficulties,
unchanged by change of fortune. Although everything grew dark and discouraging around him, he
slhowed the same unaltered purpose. His penetrating vision. ranged through the whole horizon of
possibilities to seek a gleam of hope beyond the
(daltrk clouds about him, to illumine his desires.
Though everything grew dark and darker around
him, he showed the same unaltered purpose. He
had established in his own mind some of the now
settled principles of astronomy that the earth is a
globe, capable of being circumnavigated. This
fruitful truth revealed itself to the intelligence of
Colurrmbus as a practical fact-an original idea with
him-ffor it had not, at that time, been incorporated
into the general intelligence of the age in which he
lived-an illustrious example of the connection of
s(cientific theory with great practical results. He
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