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.

BEYOND THE WEST.
considerable pretensions. Such enormous chasms
the armies of the Almighty must have left in heaven
when to overcome Luiciferand his companions,
"From their foundations loosening to and fro,
They plucked the seated hills with all their load,
Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops,
Uplifting, bore them in their hands."
At the gorge's head, some enterprising fellow
had posted a railway hand-bill, which, with finger
pointing directly down the gulf, asserted in glaring
capitals, "shortest and best route to the east." It
seemed impossible to grow weary of the wonderful
picture, but my companions, though wrapped in
heavy blankets were shivering with the cold. So we
iced and drank a bottle of champagne which a Colorado friend had thrust into one of the packs, and then
like more ambitious tourists placed a record in the
empty bottle, which was carefully re-corked and
buried under a pile of stones. We spent a few
minutes in school boy pass-time of snow balling;
then, after two hours upon the summit, we reluctantly
commenced the descent, for living without eating
was becomirg a critical experiment. Our guide,
weakened by the hard journey, missed his foothold,
falling uponl a jagged rock. Fortunately the metalic
case of his spy-glass saved him from a fractured rib,
and after lying upon the rocks for a few minutes he
came limping down with the rest. In descending,
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