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.

ASCENT OF PIKEIS PEAK.
as possible under the rock, I soon slept soundly.
At daylight when I awoke they were still out in the
driving rain, sitting before the flmrnes in glowing
contemplation, like Marius amid the riiiis. On the
third morning we breakfasted morosely, sore and
stiff in every joint.
Less than half the journey was accomplished, and
we had but one day's provisions remaining. One
of the ladies had worn through the soles of her
shoes in several places, and both were wet, chilled
and exhausted, but they would not for a moment entertain the idea of turning back.
By seven o'clock we were again climbing the slippery rock. The rain ceases, the breaking clouds
once more tuin forth their silver linings
"And genial morn appears,
Like pensive beauty smiling through her tears."
Behind, at our feet, stretches an ocean of pure
white cloud, with mounDtain summits dotting its vwst
surface in islands of purple and crimson. Before us
towers the stupendous peak. In the genial sunlight
we begin to feel the comfort of dry clothing for the
filst time in twenty-four hours, and press cheerfully
on. The hills, swept for miles and miles by vast
conflagrations, are black, and bristling with the tall,
dead trunks of pine and fir, like the multitude of
masts in a great harbor.
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