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.

DISCOVERY OF TIE AMERICAN CONTINENT.
Time's unearthing hand castoff its shell, when the real
life within comes forth and we behold the trunk, the
branches, the foliage, the solid oak. True meritreal greatness-outlives calumny and receives its
glorious rewards in the admiration of after ages.
Considering the time in which he lived, he was l:ke
our own greatest of men-who was "first in war, first
in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,"the embodiment of honor, the repository of justice.
They drank largely of the stream of life that ever
flows through the Eternal City, bearing in their
bosoms the crown jewels of immortality. But few
lives are bound closer together with sealed gold.
The one gave to the world the American Continent,
a new home for the nations; the other planted deep
in our land Republican Government, the germs of
true happiness, and unfurled truly "Freedom's banner," wrapped us up in its silken folds, and left the
trophies of enduring fame down in the deep recesses
of our national heart. Their deeds of lofty purpose
will hang on the ends of time, covered with wreaths
of immortal honor. As certain products of the earth
are the natural growth of peculiar soils at particular
times, so some men emanate almost necessarily out of
certain conditions of civilization, from the culminating point of producing causes, and stand forth as the
representatives of the times in which they live.
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