. Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists. The Falls of St Anthony. berless, and of extreme beauty. Sometimesthere are little ponds a mile in circumference,and again, great waters 40 or 50 miles in ex-tent. Their shores are charmingly wooded,and frequently present fine pictures of cliffand headland. The waters are pure andtransparent, and are filled with whit
. Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists. The Falls of St Anthony. berless, and of extreme beauty. Sometimesthere are little ponds a mile in circumference,and again, great waters 40 or 50 miles in ex-tent. Their shores are charmingly wooded,and frequently present fine pictures of cliffand headland. The waters are pure andtransparent, and are filled with white fish,trout, pike, pickerel, sucker, perch and otherinhabitants. The largest of these lakes, afterSuperior, which skirts the eastern borders ofterritory, are the Lake of the Woods, 100 miles in. circuit, Rainy Lake, Minnie-Waken orDevil Lake, Red Leach and Mille Lacor Spirit Lake. Lake Pepin, a beautiful expansion ofthe Mississippi, is in this region. Onthe east bank is the famous MaidensRock, 400 feet high, and near thenorthern end, the La Grange Mountainrises in a bold headland, 230 feet abovethe water. The Falls of St. Anthony, in theMississippi, lie within the territory ofMinnesota, 8 miles from St. Paul. Theriver at this pass is divided by an island,as at Niagara, forming the falls, thegreater of which, on the western side,is 930 feet across. The descent of thewater in falls and rapids is 58 feet in260 rods. The beauty of the scene isthus not so much in the magnitude orheight of the cascade as in the acces-sories of rock and forest group. I visited the Falls of St. Anthony,said the Rev. Mr. Barnes in a sermonof two years ago. I know not how other men feel when standing there,nor how men will feel a century hence,when standing there—then, not in thewest, but almost in t
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