What to see in America . A DuLUTH Elevator sixty pounds arecaught sometimes,and forty-poundersoften. By canoe youcan go from thereup the INIississippi toBemidji Lake or downto Lake AYinnibigash-ish. Chains of lakesalmost encircle ParkRapids. There is theMan Trap Chain offifteen lakes, and the Crow Wing Chain of twelve, and theFish Hook Chain of ten. Grand Marais is on the scenicnorth shore of Lake Superior, almost at the tip of INIinne-sotas thumb, and back of it lies the region of ElbowLake and Devil Track Lake in a glorious corner of theINIinnesota North Country. At International Falls youha
What to see in America . A DuLUTH Elevator sixty pounds arecaught sometimes,and forty-poundersoften. By canoe youcan go from thereup the INIississippi toBemidji Lake or downto Lake AYinnibigash-ish. Chains of lakesalmost encircle ParkRapids. There is theMan Trap Chain offifteen lakes, and the Crow Wing Chain of twelve, and theFish Hook Chain of ten. Grand Marais is on the scenicnorth shore of Lake Superior, almost at the tip of INIinne-sotas thumb, and back of it lies the region of ElbowLake and Devil Track Lake in a glorious corner of theINIinnesota North Country. At International Falls youhave reached Minnesotas northern lands end and havegained the threshold of the primeval woods-and-water regionof Rainy Lake. You can start here with launch, motorboat, or canoe, and go exploring the lake on a hide-and-go-seek cruise amongits hundreds ofrockbound is-lands. Warroad,the farthest northtown of INIinne-sota, is the gate-way of the mightyLake of theWoods that meas-ures nearly ahundred miles An Indl^^n Wigwam. 268 What to See in America from head to foot. No other lake has in it so manyislands. Duluth, at the head of the mighty freshwater sea of LakeSuperior, is the worlds busiest inland port. In its harboryou see scores on scores of ships that hail from all the portsof the Great Lakes. They come laden with merchandiseand coal for the Northwest, and go away loaded with grain,flour, and iron ore. The place takes its name from a Cana-dian trader and explorer named Du Lhut who visited thevicinity in 1679. It was settled in 1853, and had only eightwhite inhabitants seven years later. Ice stops all navigationin winter. April 19 is the average date of the first arrivalof a vessel from the lower lakes, and December 5 the dateof the last departure. Twenty-one inches of snow havebeen known to fall in twenty-four hours. The snow isusually dry, and it packs hard so that sleighing is a certaintyall through the winter. Ski running is a favorite wintersport, and a jump of one hundred
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