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.

CHAPTER V.
THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE DISCOVERED.
Many have been the expeditions fitted out by the
old countries and this, to explore the ice-bound regions of the Arctic Seas. Many noble men went
out with an old Roman hardihood into these unknown
Northern Seas of ice and darkness, to meet the only
enemy with which they felt themselves mated.
Their long years of perilous and difficult adventure
in these inhospitable regions stand foremost among
the heroic achievements of mankind. The most noted expedition was that of Sir John Franklin in 1845
with 135 selected men, not one of whom ever returned; but all wont to explore the vast ocean from
whose bourne no traveler returns.
These explorations prove, beyond all doubt, that
if there is a northwest passage to India, or any other
place, it'is very much iced up, and is a much more
uncertain road to travel than Jordan. But it was
reserved for the last part of this nineteenth century
to discover and make the only practical highway of
iron to India, or any other place in that neighborhood, If it were not for the ferry at the Pacific
end, it would, no doubt, push itself directly there.
Hlowever, as it is, humanity is brought nearer together; the old East has moved toward a better
reconstruction of humanity.
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