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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
Perhaps, coeval with Assyrian kings,
His branches in dominion spread! From age
To age his sappling heirs with empires grew,
When Time those patriarch's leafy tresses strewed
Upon the earth; when Art and Science slept,
And ruthless hordes drove back Improvement's stream,
Their sturdy head-tops throve, and in their turn
Bose when Columbus gave to Spain a world.
How many races, savage and refined,
Have dwelt beneath their shelter! Who shall say?
(If hands irreverent molest them not.)
But they may shadow mighty cities, reared
E'en at their roots, in centuries to come,
Till with the everlasting hills they bow
When time shall be no longer."
Never before had we seen long centuries of timE
stamped upon trees; never before did we so fully
appreciate such forms of greatness, and grandeur
that humbles; never before had we stood beside
living age, so wonderfully embodied. One feels as
though he expected to see the mighty Power that
has upheld these wonders visible upon them.
I would advise all travelers who are in San Francisco, or have an opportunity to send for them. to
procure somne photographs of the Big Trees. Thiey
will, on your possessing them, become a source of
much el)joyment.
I
I
I
i
i
i
I
I
I
i
I
I
i
-406
t
I
I
I
I
i,
i
II
I11
I
i
I
i