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[Corporal Allen and Mr. Catlin"] lingered for several days, and our canoe was hauled 

 a hundred times upon the pebbly beach, -where we spent hours and days, robbing it 

 of its precious gems, which are thrown up by the waves. 



We found many rich agates, carnelians, jaspers, and porphyries. The agates are 

 many of them peculiarly beautiful, most of them water-waved, their colors brilliant 

 and beautifully striated. Point aux Sables has been considered the most productive 

 part of the lake for these gems ; but owing to the frequent landings of the steamboats 

 and other craft on that point, the best specimens of them have been picked up, and 

 the traveler will now be best remunerated for his trouble by tracing the shore around 

 into some of its coves, or on some of its points less frequented by the footsteps of man. 



The Lover's Leap is a bold and projecting rock, of six or seven hundred feet 

 elevation on the east side of the lake, from the summit of which, it is said, a 

 beautiful Indian girl, the daughter of a chief, threw herself off in presence of her 

 tribe, some fifty years ago, and dashed herself to pieces, to avoid being married to a 

 man whom her father had decided to be her husband, and whom she would not 

 marry. — G. C. 



321. Falls of Saint Anthony, nine hundred miles above Saint Louis ; perpendicu- 



lar fall, eighteen feet; Upper Mississippi. Painted in 1835. 

 (Plate No. 230, page 131, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 Site of the city of Minneapolis in 1880, with 32,000 people. 

 Mr. Catlin made several visits to the Falls of Saint Anthony, first in 

 1835 and again in 1836. He met the Sioux here in 1835 and 1836. 



The Falls of Saint Anthony, which are nine hundred miles above Saint Louis, are the 

 natural curiosity of this country, and nine miles above the mouth of Saint Peter's, 

 from whence I am at this time writing. 



The Falls of Saint Anthony are about nine miles above this fort [Fort Snelling] and 

 the junction of the two rivers ; and, although a picturesque and spirited scene, is but 

 a pygmy in size to Niagara and other cataracts in our country — the actual perpendic- 

 ular fall being but eighteen feet, though of half a mile or so in extent, which is the 

 width of the river, with brisk and leaping rapids above and below, giving life and 

 spirit to the scene. — G. C. 



322. Madame Ferrebault's Prairie, from the river above ; the author and his com- 



panion descending the river in a bark canoe, above Prairie du Ohien, Upper 

 Mississippi ; beautiful grass-covered bluffs. Painted in 1836. 

 (No plate.) 



323. Little Falls, near the Falls of Saint Anthony, on a small stream. Painted in 



1835. 



324. La Montaigne que tremps dans I'Eau, Upper Mississippi, above Prairie du 



Chien. Painted in 1835. 



325. Cassville, below Prairie du Chien, Upper Mississippi ; a small village just com- 



Tiicnced in 1835. Painted in 1835. [Now in Grant County, Wisconsin ; pop- 

 ulation, 1880, 551 ; 32 miles above Dubuque, Iowa.] 



326. Dubuque, a town in the lead-mining country. Painted in 1835. 



On his voyage up the Mississippi Eiver in 1835 Mr. Catlin writes : 



A visit of a few days to Dubuque will be worth the while of every traveler ; and for 

 the speculator and man of enterprise it affords the finest field now open in our 

 couutry. It is a small town of two hundred houses, built entirely within the last 

 two years, on ouo of the most delightful sites on the river and in the heart of the 

 richest andmost productive parts of the mining region; having this advantage over 

 most other mining countries, that immediately over the richest (and, in fact, all) of 

 the lead mines ; the land on the surface produces the finest corn, and all other vege- 



