. Superior fishing; or, The striped bass, trout, and black bass of the northern states. Embracing full directions for dressing artificial flies with the feathers of American birds; an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior, etc., etc., etc . Not so certain; and just observe that disgustingnick in the wash-basin, it will always look dirty evenif it is not. Don, you are wrong there ; that is a good sign,it proves the basin may nick but wont break. LAKE SUPERIOR. 87 Then there is no slop-basin ; now what do yousuppose we are to do without a slop-basin? Why, throw the slops out of the window
. Superior fishing; or, The striped bass, trout, and black bass of the northern states. Embracing full directions for dressing artificial flies with the feathers of American birds; an account of a sporting visit to Lake Superior, etc., etc., etc . Not so certain; and just observe that disgustingnick in the wash-basin, it will always look dirty evenif it is not. Don, you are wrong there ; that is a good sign,it proves the basin may nick but wont break. LAKE SUPERIOR. 87 Then there is no slop-basin ; now what do yousuppose we are to do without a slop-basin? Why, throw the slops out of the window, to be sure. You would hardly call that decent in New York;and not only may they fall on some passer-by, butthe window is too small to permit it look at this pillow ; it is long, to be sure, butnot stuffed with half feathers enough; what am Ito do with such an apology for a pillow as this ? Why, double it up, of course. I see, he concluded, in a resigned tone, youare making a joke of these matters, so we will notpursue the subject; but now that we are on shorefresh from our voyage, I wish to ask seriously yourdeliberate opinion whether you would advise anyone to take the trip just for the pleasure of the jour-ney itself?. ««:!^;;5«-^ 88 LAKE SUPEEIOll. CHAPTER n. In the northern part of Mmnesota is the greatestelevation of what geologists denominate the easternwater-shed of our continent; lying almost exactlyin the centre of North America, here the streamsthat flow to the north, east, and south, find theirsource. Lake Superior, that adjoins this section onthe east, is the chief of those magnificent lakes thatempty another into the St. Lawrence, andfinally wash the coast of Labrador. The Mississippi,taking its rise in the same region and but a few milesaway, flows southward with ever increasing volumeto the Gulf of Mexico, and then sweeping aroundFlorida and through the Atlantic, rejoins the watersof Lake Superior off Newfoundland; while theKed Riv
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