What to see in America . 340 What to See in America. Nine Pipe Reservuiu amj Mission Range ized a sort of blanketis formed which pre-vents the moisturefrom escaping. Fi-nally wheat is sown,and the land thentakes care of itselfuntil harvest time. In this vicinity theMissouri River hasits source. Afterflowing five hundredmiles and gathering to itself the waters of many tributariesit makes the vertical plunge of sixty feet known as BlackEagle Falls. Four miles farther down is Rainbow Falls,where the thousand foot breadth of river drops fifty mile takes you to Crooked Falls, and a few
What to see in America . 340 What to See in America. Nine Pipe Reservuiu amj Mission Range ized a sort of blanketis formed which pre-vents the moisturefrom escaping. Fi-nally wheat is sown,and the land thentakes care of itselfuntil harvest time. In this vicinity theMissouri River hasits source. Afterflowing five hundredmiles and gathering to itself the waters of many tributariesit makes the vertical plunge of sixty feet known as BlackEagle Falls. Four miles farther down is Rainbow Falls,where the thousand foot breadth of river drops fifty mile takes you to Crooked Falls, and a few milesmore to Great Falls, where, after preliminary rapids betweensoaring precipices, the river makes a sudden magnificentleap of ninety feet down into gulfs of gray mist. In a dis-tance of sixteen miles it descends four hundred feet. NearRainbow Falls is the Great Spring Fall, formed by a springbursting from the bank of the river twenty feet abovethe channel. At the head of navigation on the Missouri isBenton. The only remains of the old fort that
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