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.

CIL.IMATE OF THE PACIFIC COAST.
intoxication, such unusual,buoyancy of spirits,'such
exhilaration and pleasure, anywhere away from the
Coast, as to sleep out in "the open air" with the
greatest comfort, by rolling himself in blankets and
"t,urning in" on the sand or under a tree. Many
laboring men in the country still keep. up this old
camping habit.
While examining the phenomena of the peculiar
climates on the Pacific coast, we meet with this difficulty, (as we have before intimated,) the want of a
thorough observation of the facts, a proper investigation of the causes. The controlling cause is, without doubt, the remarkable ocean currents that set
in on that coast, but as yet how little is known of
these. We know this much, however, that in summer a large body of cool water comes down from
the Arctic regions along the coast of Brtish Ameri.
ca, Oregon and California. This great body of cool
water is coldest near the shore; consequently, the
heavy nightly for which covers the coast and pours
in through the opening in the coast mountains at
Sap Francisco, enveloping that city nightly. In
winter the water along the coast is about three degrees warmer than in summer, and is much higher
than the temperature of the land, which, without
doubt, is one of the principal causes of the agreeable winter season along the coast country.
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