Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Bold text is denoted by =equals signs=. On page 26 Count Fritz Thumb should possibly be Count FritzThumb. On page 120 Indianopolis should possibly be Indianapolis. On page 124, General How should possibly be General Howe. A triangle symbol in the text is represented as [**triangle] HESPEROTHEN; NOTES FROM THE WEST: A RECORD OF A RAMBLE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1881. BY W. H. RUSSELL, LL.D. BARRISTER-AT-LAW. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188 FLEET STREET. 1882. [All rights reserved.] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER I. ARIZONA. Deming--The Mirage--Ruined Cities--American Explorers--Self-Tormentors--Animals and Plants--Yuma--California--Los Angeles--Santa Monica--The Pacific Page 1 CHAPTER II. THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. A new Land of Goshen--A Jehu indeed--The Drive to Clarke's--A Mountain Hostelry--Grizzlies--Fascination Point--The Merced--Yosemite Fall--A Salute--Mountain Airs--The Mirror Lake--"See that Rattle?"--A Philosophic Barber 19 CHAPTER III. SAN FRANCISCO. The Palace Hotel--General McDowell--Palo-Alto--The "Hoodlums"--The real Sir Roger--Exiles in the Far West--The Chinese Population--For and Against them--The Sand Lot--Fast Trotters--The Sea-Lions--The Diamond Palace--The Coloured Population--"Eastward Ho!" 44 CHAPTER IV. CALIFORNIA TO COLORADO. Los Angeles--Mud-geysers--"Billy the Kid"--General Fremont--Manitou, the Garden of the Gods--Desperadoes--Bob Ingersoll--Denver City--Leadville--Grand Cañon 73 CHAPTER V. KANSAS TO ST. LOUIS. Liquor Law--Kansas Academy of Science--An Incident of Travel--A Parting Symposium--Life in the Cars--St. Louis to New York 107 CHAPTER VI. NEW YORK--NEWPORT--DEPARTURE. Coney Island--Newport--Bass-fishing--Habit of Spitting--Brighton Beach--Newport Coaching--Extra Ecclesiam--Victories of American Horses--Newport Avenues--Return to New York--Our Last Day in America 122 CHAPTER VII. RETURN TO EUROPE. The "_City of Berlin_"--The Inman Line--The Service at Roche's Point--Queenstown Discomforts--A sorry Welcome Home 140 CHAPTER VIII. SOME GENERAL REFLECTIONS.