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.
mountains, we came to the ruins. Here may be seen
the old Cathedral and tlhe Palace; there -the new;
some streets having on either side once magnificent
I)locks of buildings and lofty domnes, sublime in their
proportions, grand in the outline of architecture, an
ancient city in ruins, with its walls, terraces, castles
and magnificent porticos. Occasionally, an old column and a crumbling pedestal may be seen, as though
long since abandoned by the owners, and the work
let to the destroying hand of time, to be taken down
into an unsystematic mass of ruins; also, a remarkable variety of monuments and statuary, of humanity
and animals. No place can be found having a greater variety of the kind, or of more magnificence.
O ver and through these remarkable imitations of
departed greatness, as one is compelled to imagine
them, where
"Distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountains in its azure hue."
It reminds one forcibly of some of the once great
cities of the Old World, which are now amongst the
rubbish of the past. It was with some difficulty that
we could divest our mind that these were not the
hard work of human hands, and no one left to tell
the passing traveler the story of their former greatness or present ruin. We pass mountain ranges. low
divides; cross and go down the beds of departed riv
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