PIPESTONE AND ROCK COUNTIES, 1884. N. H. WINCHELL. 



the Taconic, or Lower Cambrian age of the quartzyte. (Thirteenth Annual Report, 

 pages 65-72, 1885.) This quarry, and the legends connected with it, play an important 

 part in Longfellow's poem " Hiawatha." 



From the summit of the coteau, in northern Pipestone county, 1,900 feet above 

 the sea, to the point of exit of Rock river on the Iowa state line, the descent is about 

 550 feet. N. H. w. 



