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.

DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.
there were people not descended from Adam, as it
was impossible for them to have passed the intervening ocean.
Some of his learned hearers were convinced by
his powerful reasoning, and all were warmed by his
eloquence, but opposed his plan and object, and his
long cherished enterprise swung far back into the
co)d regions of unbelief and unpopularity. The
great truth rejected, lay discouraged at their feet,
believing, as they did, that the old rusty lantern of
the past in their hands threw light on all the distant
corners of creation. Nevertheless, the great fact
had a living home in the capacious mind of Columbus-the home growth of his own intellectclothed with warm and living thought. He picked
lp and put together his oft broken hopes, and gathered up again his energies for another effort.
"Where ignorance is bliss,'tis folly to be wise."
Consequently we find him supplicating the different
thrones of Europe, at a time when kings considei ed
themselves the wisest of mortals upon earth. Eight
een years of weary negotiation had failed to procure
for Columbus the sanction and aid of a government,
-eighteen years of despairing solicitations and
weary with long journeyings. Amid all his trying
circumstances he never consented to compromise
his superior manliness, or accept of any terms not
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