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.
We can compare the place to nothing. more appropriate than the very worst description of hell. It
is known as the "Pluton Canyon.' The steam, the
heat and the offensive smell of the chemicals soon
makes your head growdizzy, and feel a shortness
of breath, and you must hasten away or it would kill
you.
From what I had learned before my visit to the
Geysers. I had supposed they were of volcanic origin, and that the wonderful heat was caused by fire,
perhaps, far down in the earth, and that they were
vents, or safety valves, for the internal fires. On
examination, I was soon convinced that my opinions
were not well founded, but were all wrong; that
they are not at all volcanic, but Nature's great chemiical laboratory.
We four(nd here quantities of iron, causing the
inky water, alum, ammonia, nitric acid, sulphuri, acid,
sulphur, epsom salts, and acid water of various kinds.
Onte, wheii sweetened, makes good lemonade. Auother spring is said to be remarkable in its goo]
effects as an eye water.
Somre of these springs have an urrnusual degree of
hleat-from a hundred and fifty to two hundred degrees by the thermometer. Fill these vast mountain
depths with these several chemicals, and let down
thle water upon them, and the pheniomena which is
f)und here will be produced.
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