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 WEFT.
different thrones of Europe; traveling on foot, having all his worldly goods with him; despised by the
pretended philosophers, laughed at by the ignorant,
and trifled with by the arrogance of ministers and
their dependents. But he was independent, at the
same time dependent; never compromised himself
or his principles a right with a wrong. Perhaps he
lived at that distant period in sight of independence,
as near the Fourth of July as many in these more
favored times.
Ultimately he obtained an interview with the
Court of Spain, who favored his plans enough to call
together the most of the scientific professors, that he
might have an opportunity to lay his plans before
them. At this time Spain was at the summit of her
greatness, and had her greatest men. When explaining his plans of discovery to the philosophers,
and that the earth is a revolving globe, which might
be traveled round from east to west, "Why!" said
they, "what a mystical theory, contradicted by every
step we take upon the broad, flat earth which we
daily tread beneath our feet." To them it was visionary, a vast nothingness. They came together
with doubt in both hands-could not travel out of
their old stratified beliefs.
To assert that there were inhabitable lands on the
other side of the globe, would be to maintain that
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