650 A TRIP TO PIPESTONE QUARRY. 
of broken rocks in the open prairie, for our view then took 
in the whole region for many miles around it. 
The annexed diagram, although drawn merely from mem- 
ory and without linear measurements, will serve in some 
degree to give an idea of the relative positions of the princi- 
pal features of the locality. D E is intended to represent 
the principal exposure of rocks, which is about a mile in 
length from north to south, in both of which directions it 

Great Pipestone Quarry. 
becomes gradually lost from view beneath the surface of the 
prairie. It faces the west, and reaches its greatest perpen- 
dicular height, about twenty feet, at A, where “Gitche Man- 
ito, the mighty,” is supposed to have stood when he took his 
wonderful smoke, and where the brook falls over it into the 
plain below. All the rock we see is the red quartzite and a 
few granite boulders whose original home is still farther 
north, and we look some time in vain for the Pipestone, for 
our guide volunteers no information, and we have forgotten 
in our eagerness to ask him. But our cook calls to sup- 
per, and all of us satisfy our hunger, a different thing by 
the way for Mazachistina, alias John Baker, whose appetite 
seems as insatiate as that of a grist-mill. Having finished 
this delightful task, he becomes more communicative and 
