The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas, and Nebraska . bedof clay. The river banks vary from ten to twenty feet inbight; well timbered — particularly the western shore—with groves of sugar-maple, oak, ash, elm, and small streams wind through ^the prairies, skirtedwith woods; and, passing along the river road, onescarcely loses sight of the lakes, — for, in Minesota, lakesare everywhere — on the hills; in the valleys; amongthe woods ; on the plains; and upon the banks of
The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas, and Nebraska . bedof clay. The river banks vary from ten to twenty feet inbight; well timbered — particularly the western shore—with groves of sugar-maple, oak, ash, elm, and small streams wind through ^the prairies, skirtedwith woods; and, passing along the river road, onescarcely loses sight of the lakes, — for, in Minesota, lakesare everywhere — on the hills; in the valleys; amongthe woods ; on the plains; and upon the banks of some parts of the country, it is difficult to tell whetherthe land is surrounded by water, or the water by land. Crow Wing River is an important tributary of theMississippi. It has its source in Lake Kaginogumaug,near Leech Lake, with which it is connected, in Indiannavigation, by ten small lakes or ponds, separated by fivesmall portages, of various lengths. It expands success-ively into eleven lakes, before it forms a junction withShell River, which is nearly as large as the main has two large tributaries — Leaf and Long Prairie. WILD EICE. 267 rivers, which flow from the west, and are rivers of con-siderable magnitude. Its hanks are elevated, crownedwith forests, yielding every variety of pine. Its alluvialbottoms are studded with elm, soft-maple, ash, and oak. Further toward the north, in the vicinity of Red Lake,and Cass Lake, and Turtle River, the country aboundsin wild rice. Immense fields of it—thousands of acres —grow up annually, without sowing or reaping, with largeyield, sufficient to supply a dense population. The Indianspush round in among it in the latter part of August, andthrash their canoes full of the grain, scaring innumerablewater-fowl, that quack, and twitter, and flap about, gorgedalmost to suffocation. The wild rice makes a nourishingdiet, — a bushel of it is said to contain as much nutritivematter as a bushel of wheat. There ar
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