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.
new wealth of beauty, which we were hardly in con
dition to appreciate. After journeying five or six
hours, we experienced, not the gnawing of hunger,
but that irresistible faintness which the Irishman so
exactly described as "a sense of goneness." Endeavors to talk and think of other matters were fruitless,
the "odorous ghosts of well remembered dinners"
would stalk unbidden through the halls of memory,
and iii vain we sought to
"Cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast."
At noon we halted by tihe cascade which had so
enchanted us on our first day's march, and slhpt for
an hour under the shading pines. Then we (3houldered our packs for the first time and hobbled on
down the canyon.
At four o'clock our guide, who was a few yards in
advance, suddenly came upon our waiting carriage.
Now that the strain was over, the nerves of the ladies
instantly relaxed. One received the intelligence
with a shower of tears-the other with hysteric
laughter. In a moment we were surrounded by
Colorado City friends, wlho, alarmed at our protracted absence, were out in several parties, armed with
stimulants and provisions, searching for us among
the toot-hills.
Two hours later we reached the town. My corn
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