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 AMEtRICAN CONTINENT.
struck a chord that vibrated anew around the innermost heart of the Old World, and pulsated for the
first time around the earth-held up the mirror
which shows every-soul its own face.
That morning, like the morning of creation, stood
forth an additional world as to mankind, in the presence of her family, the twin sister of the Eastern
Continent, as sisters of one house are alike, looking
up through her tears, raising her head high above the
surrounding mighty waters. Thus addressed Colurtmbus: "I have sought you-have been looking far
away over the broad ocean since the great I Am
said,' Let the waters be gathered together into one
place, and let dry land appear."' Then I came up
from the innermost caverns of the deep waters, and
in my unimproved home I welcome you, notwithstanding the deep breathing of subterranean life
and the natural elements have changed my once
smooth, unwrinkled cheek of girlhood, and left deep
and wide century furrows on my face. Yet I welcome you, for by your instrumentality my old constitution will be made to smile with youth and
beauty. I will watch over and be kind to you and
yours, will exercise parental care, and we part not.
"Whom God joins together shall never be severed,"
through all the crooked ways and dark paths the
human family haLve to tread(. With a warm, pul
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