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irregularities from shore to shore. Debri* is accumulated in 

 rude masses below, and the rapids are filled with fallen or rolled 



rocks which impart a ohai is to the Wo 



made a portage of 1,250 yards, bai i r to the 



brink of the fall than is common. Fort Smelling is situated ;u 



the estimate distance of nine miles below the falls, at the junc- 

 tion with the river St Peter's. It occupit imanding po- 

 shion, and i I I may be in! n important influence 

 over the contiguous Indian tribes, and the Indian trade. We 

 ched this post on the 24th of July . CapfcJouett, the com- 

 m andi n g officer, promptly afforded every facility for communi- 

 cating tta object of the visit to ihc Sioux, and requesting their 

 concurrence, which was promised by the chiefs, in ;i council 

 convened at the Agency House. We refer to the subjoined re- 

 port for its results. No recent details of the progress of the 

 Banc war. had been received. Having accomplished the ob- 

 ject we proceeded down the Mississippi, and readied the mouth 

 of the St. Croix, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th, 

 .ore the d Gen. Atkinson with the 



combined Saucs and Foxes below. 



The River St, Croix has one peculiarity, to distinguish it from 

 all other American rivers. It has its source and its termination in 

 a 1. each of these bears the same name with itself. The 



lake at its mouth is not le ss than thirty miles in length, and is, 

 probably, no where, much over a mile wide. Its banks are high 

 and afford a series of pieturcseque views, which keep the eye 

 Constantly on the stretch. The country is an upland prairie, 

 int< ves and majestic eminences. The wat< ra 



are beautifully transparent, and the margin exhibits a pebbly 

 b b leanry washed, that it would i afford earth 



Ugh to stain the Pair a If "Loch Katrine" pres 



a more attra sylvan coast, it must be beautiful 



indeed. We went up it, turning point after point, with 



plea-are that novelty imparts, aided by the chanting of our 



MP n. We were in hourly expectation of reaching i ; - I 



