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.
to the Bay, is directly east; then you turn to.the
south around the Peninsula, at the end of which the
city is located, on the before-mentioned desolate sandhills, having one of the most capacious and safest
harbors, large enough to receive the ships of all the
oceans of the world. Within a few years the forbidding hills have been graded down, and the low
places filled up, till now we see a great city having
one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, with architecture superior to many eastern cities-nothing
looks young or unfinished.
You are surprised at seeing a city looking so old
and finished. Capital centered here and found profitable investment. The city has several miles of
very expensive wharfage now built, and steamship
lines for China, Japan, Sandwich Islands and Oregon. She is now a great commercial and manufacturing city. San Francisco is not as agreeable in
the summer as the cities farther inland, but makes
compensation by having the most enjoyable winter.
During the summer the much heated, rarified air
back from the coast rises, causing the setting in of a
strong breeze from the ocean, which pushes through
the Golden Gate, hurries and scurries through San
Francisco filled with dust, more especially during
the middle of the day when the heat is the strongest. This steady, pervading wind inland from the
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