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 PIKELS PEAK.
would only repeat the waik to save his dearest friend
from dying. I succeeded in gasping out an injunction to take precious care of the costly fluid, and we
lay down utterly exhausted. But the strong tea, as
usual, revived us all, and we started on just as the
clouds broke, revealing the rnouIJtaiI)s ar(nd vast gieen
prairies far behind us, a dream of beauty. Two of
the party suddenly yielded to illness, accompanied
by vomiting fits, and reaching the verge of vegetation we encamped for the night. As we rolled ourselves in blankets upon the ground beside our
roaring fire, another shower drenched us, and then
turned to hail. At nine o'clock our guide reaped
the harvest of his exposure and fatigue in distress
ing rheumatism, which drove him from his earth
bed, and held him writhing in pain during the night,
but disappeared with daylight's return.
On the fourth morning ice was lying thick about
our camp. All the party wore a lean and hungry
look, but our scanty larder allowed to each only a
little hiacuit, a bit of meat as large as a silver
dollar, and an ample draught of tea. At ive o'clockl
we left our packs behind and resutmed the march.
In climbing Mount Washington the vegetation
grades down regularly from tall pines to stunted
cedar shrubs with trunks five or six inches thi(k,
and -branchesnotmore than three feet high,running
along like grape vi,)eq.
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