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.
winter is quite like an English summer, sho-wery out
delightful. The'wind currents from the sea begin
in the morning and gradually increase till midday,
anrd attain their maximum force between two and
three o'clock P. M., afterward dying away to a per
fect calm at sunset. Soon after, the atmospheric
currents begin to come down from ttie snow-capped
Sierras towards the ocean, imparting to the nights
an agreeable and exhilarating coolness, for at night
the land rapidly cools while the sea retains its nor
mal temperature.
Several valleys north of San Francisco, in the
coast range, such as Sonoma, Napa,P'eteluma, and
others, all the way up to the Russian River, have
a most delightful cl'imate. The sun is warm, but in
the afternoon the sea breeze from the Golden Gate
tempers the atmosphere, and the evenings and nights
are very agreeable. The country' most resembling
California in climate is Syria; and yet that favored
land, though abounding in the most delicious grapes,
has never made a first class wine. The excessive
heat and rarefication of climate in California seems
to intensify the essential oils, which are the base of
odors, and thus produce the agreeable flavor whicl
distinguishes the wines of this favored region.
All odors and oils ate strengthenied by this wonderful climate, which, with the application of water.
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