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.

BItD S EYE VIEW OF CALIFORiNqa.
places, we have not space to notice, in California,
which the traveler should not fail to visit.
He should by all means take the steamer at San
Francisco, down the coast, and get an idea of Lower
California, the land of the angels, a region of country larger than any one of the New England States,
as yet but little developed; where are the fertility,
the beauty, (as God made it,) the fields of the tropics,
where enterprise will find many sources of wealth;
where wealth may sleep in the lap of beauty; a country which can be made a garden fair as Eden. Here
are the refreshing rains at all seasons of the year;
the land of sunshine and showers, giving a constant,
luxuriant, vegetable growth the whole year. Here
the strawberry plant yields its fruit every month of
the year. Here nature seems to have concentrated
more of that which goes to make up the sum total
of the comforts of human life, than anywhere else in
our sunset land. Life here is one continuous summer, without excessive heat; the cool sea breeze
comes in to cool the heat, while the warm breezes
from the south drives winter far away.
Those who go to the Pacific Coast to find new
homes, will find this region healthful and of the great.
est fertility. We know of no place where nature
has been more liberal; where more can be obtained
with so little effort. Everything seems generous —
liberal to a remarkable deg(ree.
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