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““as I feel about the Lake Pepin country, I 
shall be liable to present a rose-colored view. 
This is partly because Lake City happens now 
to be my heme, where my children play and 
gather agates along the pebbly shores of Lake 
Pepin; and partly because the pure climate, 
wild scenery, sky-tinted waters, fertile lands, 
and splendid fishing and hunting of all that 
Upper Mississippi country, have preserved the 
glad impression in my mind which the first 
view of the country gave in the autumn of 
1855, when, after a night’s voyage up the riv- 
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lar pitch of over fifty feet, and a general de- 
scent of one hundred and fifty feet in a mile 
and a half, besides many other rapids, where 
the river tosses and dashes through narrow 
and tortorous defiles. Chippewa Falls and Big 
Bull Falls might also be noted. Along the 
Wisconsin River are many grand and pictur- 
esque views; in Richland county, the banks of 
the river rise to a height of 200 to 250 feet, 
and in Sauk county it passes through narrow 
gorges where the banks rise to 500 and 600 
feet elevaticn. Grandfather Bull Falls, tLe 
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ANTHONY, MINNESOTA. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
er, 1 found myself early of an Indian-summer 
morning standing upon one of the bluffs over- 
looking the town which was to be my frst 
home in the West. A land of incomparable 
beauty and attractiveness it has been to me 
ever since.” Along the rivers of this State are 
found many beautiful falls, rivaling those of 
older States. In the St. Louis River are “ The 
Dalles,” which have a descent of three hun- 
dred and twenty feet. The Dalles of the St. 
Croix are also well known. Quinnessec Falls, 
on the Menomonee River, have a perpendicu- 
greatest rapids of the Wisconsin River, are in 
north latitude 45, and are a series of cascades 
breaking through a ridge 150 feet perpendicu- 
lar in height, for nearly two miles in distance ; 
on the same river, near latitude 44, is Peten- 
well Peak, an oval mass of rock, 900 feet long 
by 300 wide and 200 high, from which com- 
manding views can be obtained. Some seventy 
feet of the upper portion of this rock is cut 
and split into fantastic shapes, many of the 
fragments resembling castles, towers, and tur- 
rets. A few miles from this rock is Fortitica- 
