What to see in America . f nearly one hundred and fifty , miles. Its outlet isMinnehaha Creek,which flows easterlythrough a romanticvalley to the Missis-sippi. Within half amile of the greatriver it makes a sud-den descent of sixtyfeet in the gracefulFalls of Minnehaha,immortalized inLongfellows poem,Hiawatha. Thevicinity of the fallsis a favorite for thepeople of the neigh-boring cities, anddraws thither thou-sands of pilgrims from a distance every year. Minnesota contains the summit of the central tablelandof the continent. Here, within a few miles of each other,are the sources of rivers whi
What to see in America . f nearly one hundred and fifty , miles. Its outlet isMinnehaha Creek,which flows easterlythrough a romanticvalley to the Missis-sippi. Within half amile of the greatriver it makes a sud-den descent of sixtyfeet in the gracefulFalls of Minnehaha,immortalized inLongfellows poem,Hiawatha. Thevicinity of the fallsis a favorite for thepeople of the neigh-boring cities, anddraws thither thou-sands of pilgrims from a distance every year. Minnesota contains the summit of the central tablelandof the continent. Here, within a few miles of each other,are the sources of rivers which find outlets in Hudson Bay,the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Gulf of Mexico. Thefirst attempt to discover the source of the Mississippi wasmade by an expedition led by Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike, whichstarted from St. Louis in 1805. Pike made the latter part ofhis journey in winter on snowshoes to Cass Lake, which hebelieved to be the upper source of the Mississippi. In1832 Henry R. Schoolcraft, an Indian Agent located at. Forest near Cass Lake Minnesota 265 Sault Sainte Marie, visited the wilderness of the upperMississippi, and went with his party in five canoes from CassLake to Lake Bemidji. Thence he paddled southward to abody of water which his Indian guide assured him was thebeginning of the great river, and which he called LakeItasca. Another person with a fever for exploration was aFrench astronomer named Nicollet, who visited the Mis-sissippi headwaters four years later. He traced a tributaryof Lake Itasca through two lakelets to a third from whichhe found the infant Mississippi flowing with a breadth of afoot and a half, and a depth of one foot. This settlementof the matter was accepted till 1891 when a careful examina- It
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