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.

JOUPRNEY TO THE HOT SPRINGS.
Nevada is prolific in hot springs. One near Virginia, a mile long, following the course of a little brook,
has sulphur water boiling under ground, breaking
through in some places and throwing up jets of waer and steam. At one place a fountain rises from
the ground several feet high, making a sound like
a high-pressure steamer; consequently all the waters
are named the "Steamboat Springs." The water is
similar to the Sulphur Springs at Salt Lake, possesses
curative virtue, and is quite efficacious in rheumatism.
The Indians reverence these springs. They believe that the Great Spirit troubles the waters by
breathing in them, and they make propitiatory ofrirings to this supposed invisible deity.
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