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.

THE ROAD TO SOUTH PARK.
of water gushes up with great force. Coloradiaiis
and others mix their flour in this water, without soda or salaratus, making light and good bread. When
mixed with tartaric acid and lemon juice, it will
foam like champagne, and is as agreeable as any that
can be had at an artificial soda fountain. It is said
to possess desirable medicinal properties; and the
location, combining so many objects of interest and
grandeur, will, when the railway is made, be a pleasant summer resort in the alluring park. It lies
closely in the lap of the mountains; AMount Lincoln
on the northwest to keep sentinel, and protect it
from destructive storms, and feed it from its melting snows; while Pike's Peak on the southeast shadows it from the heated rays of the sun.
Notwithstanding the great elevation of these
parks, the traveler has in summer very agreeable
sunshine and an exhilarating atmosphere. Here
vegetation grows much higher up than it does in
other parts of the country. In the White MounItains vegetation stops at an elevation of five thousand feet. But here the mountain ranges begin to
lift themselves up out of the plains at that altitude,
and some kinds of grain and vegetables grow heire
at seven and eight thousand feet above sea level.
These now romantic parks were long centuries
ago walled in mountain seas. The road by which
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