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.

APPENDIX.
.In this brief account of the climates of thre Pacific
coast, we shall only attempt to give the facts which
are known, but as yet have not been put together.
The general impression.of intelligent people in the
Atlantic States is, that the Northern Pacific coast is
a most disagreeable, cold, half-barren region, possessing little or no capacities for production or de
velopment, which is far from the truth.
Our northern possessions on the Pacific, and of
British America, and a vast tract lying eastward
and extending far to the north, are capable of producing the ordinary grains and fruits of a temperate
climate, and support a large population, as much so
as any part of Northern Europe. Starting as far north
as Alaska, where the mean annual temperature is
,2 deg., the same as that of the north coast of Locke
Superior, and is several degrees farther to the Noi h,
and yet equally as warm, should we come down to
Sitka, (from which the ice used in California Hs
brought,) we have the summer of Norway, (55 deg.
nean); and crossing the coast mountains to the intevior country, more especially on the plains, we have
precisely in its latitude the sunny summer of
France (65 deg. mean.) There is an immense region in this part of the continent, stretching as far
as 60 deg. north latitude, beyond Alaska, capable of
producing the bread grains.
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