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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
ocean, cools the otherwise unendurable heat in the
valleys, and gives to California her agreeable summer season. While the isothermal line on the Atlantic slope sweeps down from the ice-bound Arctic seas, freezing and covering the land with deep
snows; whereas on the Pacific slope in winter the
wind currents are from the equatorial regions north,
warming the coast country, so that while we are frozen down they are ploughing and sowing, to grow
the best wheat in the world.
The warm breezes from the south give to California her mellow and most agreeable winter season.
Probably owing to the climate, children here have
the fairest, fullest and greatest physical development. No where else can they be found developing
such a physical manhood. It can hardly be other
wise, where children can live out in the open air the
most of the year, and have a thousand incentives to
effort. There will grow uLp in this country a race
of men, physically, such as has no where else been
found. There is one kind of human element in Califoruia, of too much importance to this country to
be passed unnoticed.
When the discovery of the gold mines went out
over the eastern world, the packed, starving multitudes of ancient China saw some deliverance, and
soon thousands of themn were scattered over Califor
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