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.

JOURNEY TO THE HOT SPRINGS.
all directions. Where salt is removed from the
bed brine again fills the place, and in a few days,
during the summer, evaporation is so great that salt
is soon formed as before, ready to be removed
again.
For the purpose of saying all that we design to
on this subject here, we will digress, and i)trodnce
you to a mountain of salt about two hundred and
thirty miles from here, in the southern part of Nevada. It is between four and five miles in length
and nearly six hundred feet in hight, with an un
known depth. It is pure and crystaline, and does
not deliquesce on being exposed to the atmosphere,
but is more like rock, requiring blasting to remove
it from the very solid mass, whence it is taken in
large blocks, and is as transparent as so mutch glass.
The world could be supplied from here if it could be
transported; but it is a long way inland-located in
a wilderness-an object for the admiration of the
traveler and the inspection of the scientific. There
is but one other known place on the globe where
salt is found in such a state of purity in quantity,
and that is in Poland. Should any of my readers
desire to see a specimen of it, they can do so by
calling on me.
But to return to the Hot Springs. There is about
a dozen of these (aldrons filled with water, but not
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