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.
look in through the heavy fog which fills the open ing, we see the yellow sunlight resting upon the
fog, brilliant and golden-concentrated in the nar rowest part of the channel, where the fort stands looking in the fore part of tho day like a great pillar
of fire hanging over the gate, and hence the name.
Subsequent discoveries and developments in the country, have shown it truly to be a Golden Gate-the
entrance to untold treasure.
Near the equator in the Pacific, as in the Atlantic,
starts a river in the ocean. It flows up the coast
of China, till it gets to Behring's Straits; into these
it rushes and melts the icebergs, so that there are
none in the Pacific. In doing this, it becomes very
cold, and turns down in the direction of our coast.
It goes to the Alentian Islands, where a part is deflected and makes towards the Sandwich Islands,
makinrg temperate what otherwise would be uninhabitable. A part of this now immrensely chilled
river flows down along the coast of Oregon and
California. As these colder waters come near the
coast, they are forced up to the surface and chill the
vapors in the air, condenses them, and in the night
cause a heavy fog, which hangs along the coast of
California. Why does not this sea-fog cover the
land? Because it never rises over one thousand
feet; and as the coast mountains are much higher
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