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.

CLIMATE OF' THE PACIFIC COAST.
Should we still go northward, above the latitude
of Alaska and north of the southernmost part of
Greenland, we find a section of country near the
McKenzie River so mild in climate as to have the
summer of Ireland, (60 deg. mean.) This agreeable
summer climate extends from this region southward
till it reaches Puget's Sound, and passes on to Los
Angelos in Lower California, at the latitude of Africa, for a distance of 1,500 miles north and south.
This very remarkable range of a cool and mild summer (57 to 60 deg.) for such a distance, spread over
a coast, is unknown elsewhere in the world. It is
evident that the isothermals are north and south,
instead of east and west. Still, we must remember
that along the whole coast, between the coast ranges and the mountains of the interior, are belts of
climate which are considerably different from one
another.
Should we go south to British America, in the
latitude of H.udson's Bay and Scotland, we have the
summer of Fi'rance (65 deg. mean.) This belt of
agreeable summer climate, though interrupted by
the Ro,k.k Mountains, we will find inside the coast
ranger lif we reach Lower California; or, as if from
Scotland to Africa, one belt of delicious summer extending across Europe.
Starting in the latitude of Puget's Sound, east
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