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.
the Lake Superior region and the frozen' C,ist (,f
New Brunswick. But as we proceed inland, greater
extremes of heat and cold are experienced. It is to
the elevation, in fact, that the great differences of
climate are due in this region. Sixty miles east of
Portland, in the Cascade Mountains, it is cold and
snowy when there is a warm rain at this place.
Snow falls on the high Coast Mountains of Oregon
and Washington, while on either side of them there
is a heavy growth of perpetual verdure.
The climate of the valleys, plainrs and mountains
of our Pacific West is such that it is easy to find
almost every modification of heat and cold, moisture
and dryness, by seeking certain altitudes or depressions more or less distant from the sea. The sunny
valleys of Italy or the glaciers of Switzerland are
alike accessible all the year.
The currents of cold air drives down like a great
river, overflowing its banks and spreading itself
over the whole country, drives down from the Rocky
Mountains, Sierras and Cascades, till it joins the
milder currents from the Pacific, and diffuses over
the whole country a mild, healthy, invigorating and
useful climate. The traveler from the eastern coast
will be peculiarly impressed with the purity of the
California atmosphere; hlie will wonder and look
about him to discover tile causes of such physical
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