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.
Wherever these lines of rapid communication traverse a country, God establishes a superior civilization, and the shuttles seem to start anew, to weave
the habi.iments of which all people must wear-the
religion of the earth-and here along this "highway
of Nations," are gathered the wealth, the population,
the intelligence, working thought, power to plan and
power to do the best which the world possesses. By
means of this steam power, the heaviness of olden
times is beginning to be arrested, by constant contact with that which is more vigorous and healthful.
William IH. Seward said, when that road shall have
been extended to the Pacific Ocean, disunion will be
rendered forever afterwards impossible.
There will be no fulcrum for the lever of Treason
to rest upon. There seemed to be special eras in
the world's history; also, in the advancement of the
human family. Our time is the day for making the
earth smaller, by creating speed, making all the
nations around the globe more neighborly; a broth:
erhood practically saying: " Prepare ye the way of
the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway, for
our God and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed."
Everybody desires to know bow the Continental
Rai'road is built, befitting or betraying the remark-.
able endowments of Congress.
Well, with a qualification, as well as new roads
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