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.

CHAPTER XII.
MOUNT LINCOLN.
Ilaving procured aguide, we left the picturesque
little town of Montgomery in the early morning, and
slowly wound our way from the habitation of man
up through the thick forest, where nature's great
heart beat strong amid the trees until we reached
the limit of timber, where the trees dwindled to
dwarfs a foot in hight, with trunks six to eight
inches through, having long, low branches lying on
the ground, twisted into contortions by the storms
which pass over them; then came a few blades of
grass to the acre, little scattering flowers, very small
in leaf and blossom, red, white and blue; next
came moss and lichens, the last condensed expression of nature, which termiuated at the snow line.
Here the field of granulated snow and ice began to
enlarge; soon all kinds ol life were left behind-oronly
loose-lying rocks, intermingled with snow and ice in
wild confusion. Passing a small lake in the side of
the mountain, which, as I was informed, had evei
been covered with ice, thawing enough in summer
only to loosen the ice a little from the sides, and stopping often to rest the lungs, tired of their expaiisioi
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