Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-18
LITTLE FALLs-CAsCADE RIVER.
FROM TIE oALErA (ILL. ! sazErTr.


VIsIT LITTLE FALLs-We crossed the Mississippi
above the Falls village Of st Anthony, with the in
tenton Of visiting Of the three lakes that lie to the
The country between the Mississippi and the St. Peters
rivers is mostly moderately roIing prairie, with oak
openings and belts of timber along the streams.
The day OF the finest Of the season, and
rode esuey across the praire drinking in the inspiring air,
mutually agreed that arer land lay under the
We observed that the whole country suggested New Engand
reproduced and deazed. The trees shrubs, plants.
and fowers-the air Clouds sky, birds, fishes, wild
fowl wild fruit and at the time the richness and
ness OF the couoy, showed that while had been repro
duced had also infinitely beeed in the reproduction.
For sterile mountains rearing their bold heads against tho
sky there broad stretches of timber for scany her
baged hills there Of natural grass and for every
disadvantage Of New England, found corresponding ad
vantage in the Northwest Our horses took their leisure
way, and after ride of three four miles reached the
shores of Lake Cahoun-a sheet Of perhaps mile
The surface Of the lake seemed twenty
feet below the level Of the prairie The water was beaut-
fully clear having sandy bottom aquatic plants growing
that about the margin These lakes abound in fish,
of which the pckerel and the bass Two
other lakes lie further along TO the south called Lake
Harriet and the other to the north bearing the Of the
Lake Of the Isles One halbeed family, speaking En-
gish had cabin the banks but wishing
selves the skill Of boy o. twelve years. with
sling, declined his invitation take ride the lake,
and turning partially about started down the prairie
Fort Smelling.
As passed along the shore of the lake through
piece Of ground Of thousand in extent which
seemed to parake OF the nature OF rolling and
both, and in which grew such abundance Of strawberry
vines never before For the strawberry
plant had ougrown and subdued all other vegeaion and
here evident must be feast for gods, and too
annually, at the proper The raspberry abu-
dant and the high blackberry also, with the haze
nut and the wild, rank, native grasses among which
two species that resembed oats and barley We worked
way with some difficulty, having passed, to beat down
the vegetation, while dividing wall stood up either side
high heads mile brought the open prairie,
and rode, allowing horses to take their
way, down romantic spot known Little Fal, the
road from Fort Sneng to the Falls Of st. Anthony about
miles from the latter and three from the former place.
They Cascade river stream made partially by the
surplus flowing from the lakes before named and par
TALLY from the basin in the praires above The fall takes
place bundled rods from where the stream empes itself
into the Mississippi The river, after pacidy meandering
four FIVE miles the prairie, suddenly makes leap
Of sixty seventy feet into chssm that ages have
away. The whole body of the pours the
limestone brim unbroken and undsurbed; and, Mia
gara there is the phenomena Of the continually rising cloud
of mist the drifting Of the spray, and the rainbow. The
whole stands clear and wild, from the Creators the hand
foot Of being scarcely On account of the ra-
BILE character of the stone and the nature Of the SOIL species
of aquatic plant loving the geld secuson, has covered
with green unbroken carpet the sides OF the cbasm.
The whole geological formation of the country round absut
is bed omesone beneath the SOIL of from ten inches to az
many feet in thickness overlayng pure white sand As
the here have away the saad, and
would very difficult undertaking to pass round be-
hnd them the level of the foot Of the falls The whole is
the competest cuoses looked upon, and for
the first hour would crafty majority Of travellers to much
were ncomparsbly wild and beautiful in midwnter, when
the play ed its fantastic tricks with the vapo spray, and
foam but away satisfied with having seen them in
midsummer. sss,. .sia