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.

CHAPTER XXXVII.
SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS-LAKE TAHOE-DONNER
LAKE-SUFFERING OF EiMIGRANTS-SACRAMENTO.
After having been so long on the interior desert
plains and forbidding mountains, from majestic forests and nature's growing beauties, we confronted
with renewed pleasure in the ride up the mountains
a succession of delights and pleasures, thirteen miles
from Carson to Lake Tahoe. The surging of the Pacific breeze through the massive trees of magnificent
size and beautiful form, the ".AXolean Harp" of the
mighty forest, came like sweet music laden with recollections of home and friends.
The air was sweet with fresh perfumes, the eye
beheld green valleys, and feasted on new mountains
of rock and lower hills covered with dense evergreens, when we arrived at the Glenbrook House,
beside the most beautiful sheet of water (as some
have said) in the United States.
Tahoe is said to be the highest lake on the globe,
navigated by a steamboat, (a little pleasure steamer
for the use of guests of the house) as it is already
becoming a pleasure resort of Californians in sum.
mer. The cool, healthful air, magnificent scenery,
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