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.

CONNECTING THE ROADS.
Now the National Mountain Wedding over, the
last link is supplied, and the Continent is bound to gether with iron rails, and the distance around the
globe shortened, so that now the long journey call
be made in three months, bringing the Nations o)f
the world much nearer to each other.' You leave
New York by steam to Liverpool; by steam on
land you spin through France; by steam you go
from France on the water to Alexandria; from Alexandria, on rail, steam takes you to Suez; from Suez
to China or Japan, on water, by steam; from China
to San Francisco, by steam; and now overland, by
rail, to New York."
This earth-born civilizer pushes its way among and
through the most enlightened Nations of the earth.
England, with her unti'ing industry-aggressive,
massive, a true representative of the old Roman civilization. France, the umpire of taste, the creator
of fashion, a workshop of the beautiful. Egypt, a
land that ever has been an unsolved problem. Chlina, with her never movable half-civilization waiting
her time; and India expecting the English people
to do more for her than she can do for herself.
And next comes our goodly heritage, the New
World, working out for all the people of the Old
World the great problem of self-government-freedom for all, individual responsibilities, aspirations
and achie,vements.
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