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 TIIE WESI'.
cenice-some located upon hills, like great temples
built by human hands. One is known as Table
lUock, another Castle Rock, and another as Signal
Rock, from signal fires vwhich the Ii(tianrs formerly
built upon it. Capital R)ck takes the form of a
strong fortification, with massive walls and arched
gateways, let out to the slow but strong and sure
hands of time, and being taken down made an un svstematic mass of ruins. They culminate in huge
walls at the south, known as the gardens of the
gods. Enormous columns of red rock rise perpen
dicularly for three hundred feet. Through this
natural gateway we passed into a beautiful enclosure,
walled up on every side by very high mountainstruly a garden for the gods. One isolated rock has
a cave eight feet by sixty, and seventy feet in hight,
with walls smooth and seamless. They challenge
the admiration of the beholder-impress upon him
the idea of a great mountain cemetery, such as
Egyptian kings never built to perpetuate ignorant
ambitionii. Then, too, the deep canyon, with mountaim walls onl either side, and its sparkling waters.
Here truly are " books in the rulnning tbrooks,' if history be true. The view from the entrance to the
Park is a landscape of arcadiatii beauty. Magnificenit evergreen mountain slopes within the range of
vegetable life, with naked tops above, iinternally
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