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.

Blzf,'ON-D THE WEST.
life itself. Unifortluiately, habit unfits them for a, iy.
thing beyond the man-machine.
The blue sky, the bright sunshine, the flower-carpeted earth, the foliage-clotked trees, the moss-grown
caverns, the mighty hills, or the forest-form harps
touched by the fingers of the wind and p)layil)g their
grand old anthems of praise, have an inviting and
suggestive voice that man was made for enjoyment
as well as duty; for happiness as well as business;
and the probability is apparent, that the godlike facilities bestowed upon him,enabling him to hold communion with the beautiful and ennobling, the sublime or wonderful, would not have been if man were
not expected to be something loftier than a meie
humdrum business machine.
Nature sometimes turns over some new and wonderful pages in her glorious old volume, and discovers to men such morsels as the groves of mammoth
trees, the Yo Semite, the Geysers, the Natural Bridges atld Caves, and more recently the Alabaster Cave
of El Dorado County.
On such occasions, there are many persons who
will find time to open their sight-seeing eyes, and
take a glimpse, if only to say they have seen them,
lest they should be deemed behind the age, or out of
fashion; but there are others again, and their name
is legion, who admire, yea, almost worship, the beau
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