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.

SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAINS.
together with an unlimited supply of delicious laike
trout, make the place one of pleasure and health.
Thie lake is twenty-four miles long, and is from twelve
to fifteen wide, and six thousand two hundred and
eighteen feet above the sea; walled in by mountain
ranges thousands of feet high, with peaks standing
as sentinels, reflecting their majestic greatness in
the transparent water. It seemrns as crystaline as if'
the water were air. Substances of a small size can
be seen with distinctness on the bottom at a depth
of a hundred feet. In places it has been found to
be sixteen hundred feet deep. The irriegular line
dividing the green of the shallow waters f'ar)i tle
blue of the depths is clearly marked. Thie shores
are mostly covered by shining black sand.
The line crosses the lake, dividing the Gold(len and
the Silver State, and is a place of unsurpasse(d magnificence and beauty, only fifteen miles from the
railroad, which makes it quite accessible for those
wishing to visitit. No one who can will regre-t
seeing this brightest jewel in the mountain co, onet
There are several small lakes in the mountains
about here which ale not less than seven thousan(i
feet above the ocean). Lake Comio is oI)e literally
amongst the tops of the mountains, fourteen in miles
long and nine miles wi(ne, and walled in by volcanic
debris.
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