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.
shall eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt' not
lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and
out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass," a delinea tion of California, the offspring of Divine appoint ment.
Asia first saw the Star of Empire take its way
westward, when it illumed the pride of Babylon and
Ninevah, and the Kingdom of Darius. Europe next
grew radiant in its beams, when it gleamed on the
darkness of Greece and Rome, and lit up the modern powers in its rich effulgence. Then it traveled
across the ocean, to pour its greatest and latest splendor down upon America with a pervading glory, ever
spreading oil across the Continent, until its mission
was accomplished, and it fell on California-the Empire of the West.
The remembrance of many scenes and experiences in our travels over this other half of our heritage,
will ever form one of the pleasant memories of life.
No country more grand, varied and magrificent-a
union of that which is great and imposing-when
seen as God made it.
We terminate our travel with enlarged views of
the Pacific part of our country. I would that you,
kind reader, and all our people, could worship before
its remarkable Nature-without it none can have an
adequate knowledge of this country-of our extend
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