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.

JOUL'NEY TO THE HOT SPRINGS.
them they appeared to rise from beds of flame and
to put sheets of fire upon their majestic wrial
heads.
We continue on over the country where universal
desolation was stamped upon all around. It would
almost seem in some places that nature herself had
quite expired, so remarkable was the sterility and
dreariness. A hot, yellow haze hung upon distant
objects, while a sort of dazzling, glittering heat
seemed to surround everything near at hand. Some
of the road was too dreary to be spoken of-yellow
sand, with a few rocks rising above the plain, with
an occasional cluster of artemisia.
The bitter imprecations of manya maddened and
almost frenzied emigrant were poured out with
startling energy and emphasis upon this treache.rous
portion of the country, as many thousands of the
bones of their poor animals were scattered all across
this forty miles of burning sun, waterless, alkali,
Humboldt Flat. I found no place on the Overland
Route where the emigrant had left so much along
the way to remind one of these plains of death to
their animals, and a consequent loss of other propertyv, when "Hopes and fears in more than equal balance laid,' while they toiled on amid great suffering.
We traveled some distance along this old emigrant
road and then turned south to Humboldt River, then
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