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.

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APPENDIX.
CLIMATE OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
The causes of the peculiar (unlike elsewhere) climates of our western coasts are still not wholly
known. Careful investigations of the Government
geographical surveys in the mountain ranges, and
the observations of Government officers on the coast
and at the military stations, have given us some important facts which aid somewhat in explaining them;
but we shall have to wait a few years the basis of a
"Science of Climate" for the Pacific coast, before they
can be satisfactorily explained. That which is the
most essential isas yet the least known and deter
mined-the marine currents of the Pacific Oceanwhich have a vast influence in determining the climates of its coasts. Every intelligent traveler will
be convinced that there is a mysterious something
in the climate of this coast, which is remarkably
bracing and invigorating, which cannot be properly
explained by its equability, its temperature, or its
dryness. Whether it is occasioned by that fortunate mixture of oceanic and continental climates
which characterizes this coast, or from iiidiscovered
causes, future investigation must determine.
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