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.

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high hearted, but gets the dyspepsia in his neck-tie
and the reputation of being headstrong, because he
carries his head on his shoulders instead of under
his arm, and feels the pulse-beatintgs of the world's
mighty heart.
The dictates'of silent nature would rebuke us
were I to leave the great discoverer here-would
call us ungrateful. We pass that period of his life
which shows how soon a change may come over
life's resplendent day, caused by the inhumanity of
a usurping commissioner. When the noble-minded
Isabella heard how he had been inhumanly treated
and the royal authority abused, her large heart filled
withli mingled sympathy and indignation, for he had
been sent from the land he discovered to the Court
of Spain in irons. When he saw sympathizing tears
in the eyes of his open-handed, warm-hearted Queen,
lie fell at her feet. There is a gilded cord of sympathy running through, and throwing its folds about
the citadel of life in every bosom that vibrates with
music to faithful duty and repeated kindness-kniting, as with golden fingers, a silken web around
troubles.
Columbus made other discoveries and exploratious which were perilous and lengthy; so that
wheii he ultimately arrived in Spain, his patroness
hlaving finish-ed her earthly work, his income io()t
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