What to see in America . Indians and a Birch Bark Canoe, Vermillion Lake XXVIII Minnesota The name of the state is of Indian derivation and meansSky-tinted Waters. The region abounds in lakes andponds, and in some sections you cannot travel five mileswithout encountering one of these expanses of water. Manyof them are linked together by small clear rivulets. Some arebordered by grassy slopes, others by precipices, and theyoften contain wooded islands. Their beds are generallypebbly, or are covered with small bowlders, which peep outalong the shore. The water is usually sweet, clear, and
What to see in America . Indians and a Birch Bark Canoe, Vermillion Lake XXVIII Minnesota The name of the state is of Indian derivation and meansSky-tinted Waters. The region abounds in lakes andponds, and in some sections you cannot travel five mileswithout encountering one of these expanses of water. Manyof them are linked together by small clear rivulets. Some arebordered by grassy slopes, others by precipices, and theyoften contain wooded islands. Their beds are generallypebbly, or are covered with small bowlders, which peep outalong the shore. The water is usually sweet, clear, and are plentiful in them, and are much superior in flavorto those from muddy and warm waters. In some parts ofthe state are numerous waterfalls. A waterfall in theDakotah tongue is called a ha-ha, which may be trans-lated laughing-water. The best known ha-ha in Minne-sota is that of St. Anthony, a fifty-foot leap of the Mississippi. 260 Minnesota 261. It was named by FatherHennepin, who had beentaken thither, a captive,by a party of Indian buf-falo hunters in 1680. The government estab-lished Fort Snelling, in1819, on a bluff six milesbelow these falls on thewest side of the Mis-sissippi just above themouth of the IVIinnesota River. Here the first ^he State House at St. Paul marriage ceremony in Minnesota was performed, the first white child born, andthe first school taught. On the other side of the MinnesotaRiver there developed the little hamlet of INIendota, inhab-ited by French and half-breeds with their Indian wives and children. In 1821 soldiersfrom the fort built a saw-mill on the west side ofthe falls, where nowstands one of the greatestflouring mills in the land on that side wasa military reservation notopen to settlement, and aman named Parrant, whoattempted to establish hishome there, was drivenoff by the soldiers in went down the rivera few miles and built aThe Falls of Minnehaha whisky shanty on the e
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