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THE SPORTSMAN’S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE. 
Fort Snelling appears in full view — located 
upon a commanding eminence at the conflu- 
ence of the Minnesota (St. Peter) rivers. The 
scenery at this point is exceedingly romantic 
and picturesque. There are points of interest 
about St. Paul that are worth visiting, but too 
numerous to mention in detail, A short dis- 
tance above Meeker’s Island, close by the 
roadside, a small stream, from the springs and 
lakes of the back country, leaps from the lime- 
stone rock about forty feet to the bed of the 
Mississippi. It is knownas “ Winter Queen,” 
and is a most beautiful, sparkling cascade, 
umns of ice; in Summer a perpetual rainbow 
is seen. It is surrounded by pleasing and at- 
tractive scenery on all sides, and its fall cre- 
ates a cheerful music. On from Minnehaha, 
in view of one of the most magnificent natural 
panoramas ever beheld in any country, and 
soon in sight and hearing of the roaring and 
foaming cataract, the Falls of St. Anthony and 
the city of Minneapolis. Across the river, 
and below the falls, are the beautiful cascades 
—‘‘ Fawn’s Leap” and “Silver Cascade,” also 
the Chalybeate Springs, which flow out from 
the limestone rock on the bank of the river. 
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THE DALLES OF THE ST. LOUIS, NEAR NORTH PACIFIC JUNCTION, MINNESOTA. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
which delights every one who visits it. 
about three miles further, and tlie traveler is 
at the celebrated ‘‘ Falls of Minnehaha ”— 
Laughing Water. These fallsare formed by a 
little stream of remarkable purity and clear- 
ness, the outlet of lakes Minnetonka, Calhoun, 
Amelia, and Rice. In its course to the Mis. 
sissippi, a distance of nearly a mile from it, 
the stream makes a perpendicular leap of fifty- 
nine feet, the transparent water foaming and 
sparking like diamonds in the sunlight. In 
Winter it is covered with pyramids and col- 
On ; The Merchants, Metropolitan, Park Place Ho- 
tel, and the International are the best hotels 
in St. Paul. 
A leading feature of Minneapolis, which is 
especially noticeable, and an attraction, is the 
chain of beautiful lakes about three miles out. 
For beauty of surroundings and crystal clear- 
ness, one can scarcely imagine more charming 
bodies of water than Jakes Harriet and Cal- 
houn, the Lake of the Isles, and Cedar Lake, 
while still further on, some fifteen miles dis- 
tant, Lake Minnetonka, approachable by rail- 
