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.

APPENDI,X.
In the summer months when the sun's-rays are
more vertical, the great plains and deserts of Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and California
become heated and the air rarefied; the great body
of colder atmosphere from the neighboring ocean
begins to drive itself into the rarefied spaces, causing that constant sea gale which, pouring over the
coast ranges, cools the interior country. But for
this, under a semi-tropical sun, destitute of rain, the
inner country would be another Sahara desert. But
again, as the sun's rays in winter become less vertical, and the interior cooler, at the same time the
ocean (froin some unexplained cause) being warmer,
the sea winds cease, and the coast is warmer in winter than in summer. The southeast. and southwest
winds in winter being in milder temperature, from
the ocean, than that of the land, are at once condensed, and the rainy season ensues. When the sun
returns northward again it reverses this, and the
dry season follows. But why so much more rain in
Oregon during the year than iil California and Washington, and with such southeast winds? The cause
of this is not wholly clear; but by the return trades
in summer, and the atmosphere being milder than
on the California coast, the air less highly rarefied,
the winds less violent and more warm, and therefore
more easily condensed, gives Oregon much more
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