The Norfolk Virginian's annual, for the year 1884 . of clearest purity and wildestrugged nature. The Minnehaha of Longfellow, thanks to thepoet, is as well known by name as Niagara—and the beautiful falls and cascades of the Ver-million at Hastings are as wildly picturesque asthe Glens Falls of the Hudson, made famous byFennimore Cooper. Across the broad bosom of the Upper Missis-sippi, even here a magnificent sheet of stream,in the Wisconsin lake region, we find the famousDevils Lake, with its stupendous rock-boundshores, and the Wisconsin river, with its Dells of similar rocky charms. Those
The Norfolk Virginian's annual, for the year 1884 . of clearest purity and wildestrugged nature. The Minnehaha of Longfellow, thanks to thepoet, is as well known by name as Niagara—and the beautiful falls and cascades of the Ver-million at Hastings are as wildly picturesque asthe Glens Falls of the Hudson, made famous byFennimore Cooper. Across the broad bosom of the Upper Missis-sippi, even here a magnificent sheet of stream,in the Wisconsin lake region, we find the famousDevils Lake, with its stupendous rock-boundshores, and the Wisconsin river, with its Dells of similar rocky charms. Those who have seenWatkins Glen and the chasm of the Ausable,will here find those scenes reproduced a hundredfold ; and it has been said that people who findone day enough for Niagara, will linger withinterest for weeks among these weird sail by moonlight through these rocky gorgesand overhanging cliffs is an experience thatshould make a poet, for the time being, evenof the most matter-of-fact Yankee the nineteenthcentury has made GIFFORDS, OCONOMOWAC LAKE. —Taylor.
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