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.

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF CALIFORNIA
wonderful fruit-bearingregion. Here the peach, the
pear, the apple, the cherry, the nectarine, the almond, the pomegranate and the fir yield most abundantly. Here also the grapes grow and bear
abundantly-almost beyond belief. We believe a
more remarkable belt of the same extent cannot be
found anywhere on the face of nature.
As we go through these belts we see the mountains,
hills and valley. spotted with cattle and sheep paths.
near enough together to let these natural engineers
appropriate the wild oats. Here in the hills grow
that wild fruit, the manzanita (or little apple) which
the Indians gather to give a relish to their dry
acorns. Here, beneath the lofty mountain ranges,
in their productive and beautiful foot-hills and in
their bewitching yalleys, sleeps the gold yet to be
found. There we look off over the great Sacramento
Valley and the Coast Range of mountains, where the
great ocean is kissing their base. On the western
slope of these mountains, amid the fogs, is found that
remarkable tree, the "redwood," from which boards
are often made six feet wide. It is a species of cedar, and is used more for building purposes than all
other kinds of wood in the country.
Still beyond, in the ocean are several islands, some
the home of birds, from which large quantities of
eggs are taken to the city. Others, inhabited by
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