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.

']HdE MAMMOTH CAVE.
ed when no one is within. Upon enteritng weede.
scend a few steps, and enter a room twenty-five feet
in length, by about twenty feet in width, and from
six to twelve feet in height. Here is a desk, upon
which is a book-" Coral Cave Register."
This book was presented by some gentlemen who
believed that "Coral Cave" would be the most appropriate name, as a greater proportion of the ornaments are stalactites, being like beautifully frozen
mosses, or fine coral. Passing along another passage, we come to the enchantment. Before us is a
broad, oddly-shaped and low-roofed chamber, about
one hundred and twenty feet in length by seventy
feet in breadth, and ranging from four to twenty feet
in height. Bright, coral-like stalactites hang down
in irregular rows and in almost every variety of
shape and shade-from milk white to cream colorstanding in inviting relief to the dark arches above,
and the frowning butraces on either side; while low,
broad redges, some almost black, others of a reddish
brown. stretch from either side, between which the
space is ornamented with peculiar coloring that resembles a grotesq kind of graining. Descending
.oward the lift, we approach one of the most beautiful stalactite groupes in this apartment.
Some of these are fine pendants-no larger than
r'_pe-stems-tubular, and from two to five feet in
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