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.
they departed to the oceans, when the man)date went
forth, calling the waters together, are cleairly marked,
leaving unmistakable evidence, snacii as oceanic
waters alwa3s leave behind. There can be no doubt
but that ocean water once covered this country, for
sea shells and various kinds of fishes, and small animals are found here petrified, such as are only found
in salt water. Smrne have been found here ten
thousand feet above the level of the sea. Do you
suppose that the oceans ever covered this continent
to such a hight? I cannot but think that the ocean
once covered all this country, and when the great upheaval took place the mountain ranges were brought
forth from under the ocean, and that these great
parks were originally dammed up mountain seas, and
that in time they made a channel through the Iow
divides and went back to their mother ocean-leaving in their places the fossil remains, the garden of
the "gods and the fountains that boil."
The little miners' town of Montgomery is almost
hid in the northernmtost part of South Park, under
the divide which separates it from Middle Park;
the easiest and much the best place to go from one
to the other. I would advise all who wish to do so
to go this way and not by the way of Gray's Park
which is much more tedious and accomplished only
by hard labor.
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