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.

CLIMATE OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 483
! the Rocky Mountains, I have been often reminded
of the old Bible descriptions of nature and scenery
in Judea as applicable here.
There are many striking resemblances between
our Pacific coast and Syria; indeed the country
seems an American Palestine, where everything is
peculiar and somnewhat original. It seems another
country, separated by barriers-the ocean on one
side and mighty mountains on the other-from the
civilized world.
We can now look forward to no very distant pe riod, when our Imperial Union will have here an em pire of millions, the leading community of the world,
on the American shores of the Paicific.
The influence of climate and circumstances are
such in this new world of ours, that we can now
begin to see growing up in a remote future a mix ture of races, different from each of its elements,
physically and intellectually, such as no other coun i trv has yet developed.
If vou. kind reader, are still in good humor with
] vcyurself, a.nd on the loevel with me, after our long
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