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 THiE WEST.
ica standing on his storm-shattered bark, the shades
of night having fallen on the sea-vet no man
sleeping. The dashing billows of alternate hope and
despair rolled through and convulsed his own
troubled bosom. Extending forward his weatherbeaten form, straining westward his anxious eyes
until Hleaven at last granted him a momenft of rapturous delight, and seemed again to fill the world
with new delight-with joy and gladness in blessing
his vision with the sight of the before unknown
world. The great elemental mystery of a New World
was settled. Land swelling up from the great ocean,
clothed in the habilimients of nature's richest
beauty; glorious morning sunshine playing in the
green tops of trees; spring abroad among the
branches; homes for happy life sitting in the distant
valleysof perpetual green; a beautiful island, as if
direct from nature's great mirror and dressing room,
magnificent and beautiful, fuill of tropical fruit, like
a continental orchard.
Upon landing Columbus threw himself upon his
knees, kissed our common mother earth, returned
thanks to God, followed by all his companions,
ardent in their expressions of repentance and admiration. Then and there the first Christian bent the
knee to thank the Sovereign Ruler and Maker of the
universe for the extension of the earth. He then
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