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.

CLIMIATE OF THE PACIFIC (OAST.
makes one great hot-bed and pleasure ground of the
earth, as is granted by a bountiful Nature to the
hand of man. There is no climate in Europe or the
Eastern States, and very few soils, that are like
those of California. The conditions are essentially
different, and what would be adapted to our circuimstances might be unadapted to these. Such is the
wonderful quality of nature here, and the remarkable energy of our people in this invigorating climnate, that they undertake and imagine beforehand.
however inexperienced they maybe, that they know
it all; consequently many disappointments are the
result of too hasty efforts. With a sun as of Italy,
a coast wind cool, and an air as crisp and dry as that
of the high Alps, people work on without much relaxation or excessive fatigue, and can accomplish as
much as double the number elsewhere. The temptation for men to over-exercise is excessive; they
have none of those necessary resting spells which
the "heated terms" on the Atlantic require of our
hard-working citizens, and fewer of the necessary
vacations which Nature enforces in the diseases of
our changeable climate.
We have often thought that if an intelligent student of Nature, from our Atlantic slo(pe, were suddenly dropped down, blindfolded, on the Pacific
coast, in valley or on mountain, he w,,nld know as
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