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 IX.
THE MOUNTAIN RANGES.
Here, from the door of our hotel, we contemplate
In woI(derful grandeur the mountain ranges, nature's
maglnificent panorama, such as never feasted the
hard-earned glories of human effort, equaled only
by the Great Artist-face to face with God's wonlerful yet beautiful handiwork.
The continental mountains dwell here in magnificclit proportions, extend themselves in reckless
luxuriance of conscious greatness, and intivite the
nation to. her for strength, for wealth, for the most
Iealthful recreation. They may truthfully be called
ViLe Mother Mountains of the continent. Starting
from an elevation on the plains of over five hundred
feet, these mountains go up eight, ten, eleven and
twvelve hundred feet above the sea level. Peaks are
scattered every where. This hight, indeed, they are
the mountain ranges. They do not form a line, as
cending from one and descending to another valley,
but are many lines fold(led together and resting on
each other in remarkable confusion, the range
that divides the waters that flow to the Atlantic
from those going to the Pacific. "The divide" runs