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 PTKF,S PF AK.
two little gems of lakes were set among the rugged
mountains holding shadows of the rocks and pines
in. their transparent waters. Far beyond a group
of tiny lakelets-(eyes of the landscape) glittered
and sparkled in their dark surroundings like a cluster
of stars. Toward the north we could trace the
timber of the Platte for seventy miles, almnost to
Denver. To the west, the South Park and other
amphitheaters of rich 1oral beauty, gardens amid
the utter desolation of the mountains, were spread
thousands of feet below us, and beyond, peak upon
peak, until the pure white wall of the Snowy Range
rose to the infinite blue of the sky. North, south,
and west swept one vast wilderness of mountains of
diverse forms and mingling colors, with clouds of
fleecy white, sailing aerial among theirscarred and
rugged summits.
We look upon four territories of the Union, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Utah, and( New Mlexico, and viewed
regions watered by four great rivers of the continent,
the Platte, Arkansas, Rio Grande and Colorado; tributaries respectively of the Missouri, the Mississippi,
the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California. Upon
the north side of the peak a colossal plowshare seeinms
to have been driven down from the summit to the
base, its gaping furrow visible seventy miles away,
and deep enough in itself to burv at mour-tain of
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