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.

WkSTE ItN OREGON.
"Upon rising the slope bounding the lake, the first
impression made upon your mind is one of disappointment-it does not come up to your expectations, but this is only momentary. A seconid look, and
you begin to comprehend the majestic beauties
of the scenery spread out before you, and you sit
down on the brink of the precipice, and feast your
eyes on the remarkable grandeur. Your thoughts
wander back thousands of years to the time when,
where now is a placid sheet of water there was a
lake of fire, throwing its cinders and ashes in every
direction. The whole surroundings prove this lake
to be the crater of an extinct volcano. The appearance of the water in the basin, as seen from the top
of the mountain, is that of a vast circular sheet of
canvas, upon which some painter had been exercising his art. Tile color of the water is blue, but in
very many different shades, and, like the colors in
variegated silk, continually changing. Nowv, a spot
will be dark blue, almost approaching black; in the
next moment it will change to a very pale blue, and
it is continually changing from onie shiide to another.
"I cannot account for this changeableness, as the
sky was perfectly clear, anid it could not have been
caused by any shadows. There was, Lovowever, a gentle breeze, which caused a ripple of the waters; this
maty account for it. At first sight, a person would
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