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.
busy life, of pride, wealth and arrogance, defying
the Almighty power, went down; the river Jordon
flowed in to stay. The Dead Sea was made 1.300
feet below the Mediterranean-the lowest body of
salt water in the world. An eminent traveler says:
"He lay like a cork upon its surface."
The mystery has been solved. The specific gravity of water being 1,000, this is 1,211, a degree of
density unknown in any other but Salt Lake. As
the people here are the Saints, in these latter days,
they will not be the subjects of Almighty punishment, like the last named.
Brigham Young is a great man, I answer, when
asked about him. No one can doubt this, who is
acquainted with Utah as it now is, and recollect
what it was when first settled by him. He is a man
of much shrewdness-far-seeing; has thought much
and mingled much; observed closely the various
workings.of practical life, and is a man of the highest executive ability-would have succeeded in any
branch of a business life he might have undertaken.
Personally, hlie treated me with liberality and kindness, as the Mormons do all those who visit among
them, and do not make themselves obnoxious by
undue interference with them. In a rambling conversation with Brigham Young, I referred to Joseph
Smith, as not having an unspotted reputation when
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