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.
prairies of the Upper Mississippi, and the la(wn)s,
groves and copses of the sunnySouth. To the eastward he beholds an immense platteau or elevated
plain, relieved at distant intervals by spurs from the
monltain chains, and slopinig gently in different directions towards the various streams which, wending their way through mountain gorges to the ocean,
or to some silent lake, drain the eastern portion of
the State. To the west he surveys a country diversified by great rivers and small streamlets; by tall
mountains and deeply ermbosomed vales; by gentle
undulations and precipitous, high-walled canyons; by
dark-frowning forests of pine and fir, spruce and cedar, which the eye fails to penetrate; and natural
gardens, all carpeted over with luxuriant grasses,
redolent with odors of wild flowers, and full of the
music of winged choristers."
This chain of mountains has 0so many larTe streams
rushing over precipitous cliffs, leaping from fall to
fall, and dashing and foamin)g over rocky beds-hence
the characteristic name-Cascade.
Many curious formations are found in the tops of
the Rocky and Cascade Mountains, remarkable lakes,
(you will recollect we mentioned one while ascending Mount Lincoln,) small mountains of cinders, as
if fresh from the volcanic forge, sea shells and corals. One of these Mountain Lakes is thus described
by a gentleman who visited it:
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