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.
than this, they keep it back. But at the Golden
Gate, where there is an opening, having a chance, it
does roll in every day and envelops San Francisco
from about the middle of the afternoon till towards
nine o'clock in the morning.
The inquiry has often been made, Why this unu
sual fog in and about the city, and no where else inside the coast range? But there is another reason
why the fog does not go in and possess the land.
The great valley spoken of is the laboratory of the
State. There the sun comes down in its strength,
and the heated, thirsty air rises, and drinks up all
the moisture the ocean can send inland, long before
it can become a rain-cloud. But there are unseen
mists coming in from the ocean during the summer,
as the wind always blows from the west at that sea
son of the year. This more heated atmosphere min
gles with the colder, which drives down over the
snowy Nevadas, making the nights always cool, and
refreshiDg to man or beast.
The stranger, on visiting California, is somewhat
bewildered. He finds everything different from what
he expected, or ever saw before. He seemed to have,
either designedly or accidentally, alighted on another
different country, where Nature has conspired to
confound and enjoy his confusion.
How different from tile Atlantic States. Here the
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