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.

BEYOi.N TIHE WEST.
length. Three or four there were over eight feet
long; but the early admitted Vandals destroyed or
carried them off. Others resemble the ears of white
elephants, (if such an aniimal could be known to natural history,) while others again present the appearance of long and slender cones, inverted. By examining this and other groups more closely, we ascertain that at their base are numerous coral-like excrescences of great beauty; here, like petrified moss,
brilliant and almost transparent; there, a pretty fun,
gus, tipped with diamonds; yonder, like miniature
trees, which, to accommodate themselves to circumstances, have grown with their tops downward. In
other places are apparent fleeces of the finest Merino
wvool or floss silk. Leaving these, by turning to the
right, we can ascend a ladder and see other combi[lations of such mysterious beauty as to highly gratify
and repay us. Here is the loftiest part of the chamber. Leaving this, you arrive at a large statagmite
that resembles a tying-post for horses, and which
has been dignified or mystified by such names as
"Lot's Wife," (if so, she was a very dwarf of a woman,
as its altitude is but four feet and two inches, and
its circumference at the base, three feet and one
inch,) "Hercules Club," "Brodignag's fore-finger," &c.
Passing on over a small rise of apparently snowc,ngealed or petrified floor, we look down into an
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