The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-06-21
DAILY PIONEER.
Scenery of the Mississippi River.

RI. RAE, of the Galena Jetersoniqn gives
the following animated description of the mag
nfccnt scenery of the Mississppi:-
Our opinion Of the beauty of the scenery
bordering the Mississippi has always been SUI.
ticiently exalted hut we have had no opportu-
nifty to compare it with other streams visited
by the lovers Of the beautiul-those of our
own country excepted. To us it has been al
ways more attractive than the Hudson, inf
nitely more beautiful than the Ohio and gran
der by far than the St Lawrence. Whether
these opinions We're entertained because of our
partIallties for what is Western or as matter
OF correct taste, we were undecided. On the
trip, We we're not little pleased to have our
notions strengthened By the unanimous tcstimo-
ny of the party in favor Of their correctness.
We had those aboard, who had visited the
Rhine, the Nilethe Danube, and all the streams,
the praises OF which are sung 50 often AMI so
loudly by tourists, and if the delight depicted
upon their faces and the EXPLANATIONS of admi-
ration, breaking from their lips, are any indica
ton OF thclr feelings. it may be set down that
in their minds, the Upper Mississippi has at
fractions possessed by no other body of water
in the world. The Rhine, small stream,
hemmed up on each side by cminences of mod
crate height, owes its celebrity to its legends,
its ruined castles and their historical associa-
tons; the Nile is an old page-almost the first
in the worlds history. Its pyramids, its
ruined and half buried cities its Obclisks and
Its wonderful quarrics, give it 4 charm that the
river alone does not possess. Bat the Upper
Mississippi has no adventitiouS aids. Its lofty
and fantastic bluffs, its bald promontorics, its
beautiful slopes, its quiet and clear waters its
volume, its broad spreading bottoms, its mag
bining and rc-combining in a succession of I'M
paralleled pictures, as the Traveller moves along
Heed no aids from legendary lore or fabulous
mythology, to give them place in the memo
ry of the bchoider, forever
The trip. about which we are writing will
d. much toward bringing the charms of our
noble stream to the notice of the fashionable
word. FaSho'. in scenery, as in everything
else, controls thousands. and until a country or
q STRAIN has received the seal of appreciation
f'um tloSe who give direction to public ap-
Pause, it might, though endowed with the
beauty Of ElySlum, or the sublimty Of Niaga-
Ia, live 10 the end Of timA, unnoticed and un-
appreciated but by the few who do not need
authority to admire and reverence in Nature,
the handiwork Of the Almighty.
That the country from Rock Island to st.
Anthony will become favoritc ground for the
tourists, we do not doubt So well convinced
WAS Mr.. Appleton, the senior of the great
New York publishing house, that this would
he the case, that, during the trip, he made ar
ranrements for the writing of guide book, to
embrace description Of history, &C., of the
prominent points between the places above
named. Not this on!y:-thc artists of the ex-
cursion, of whom we had two of the most celc-
bratcd in thc country charmed with what
tb.,.r
with miniature copies Of the unequaled scenes
that every where. over distance of more than
three hurried miles, thickly abound More
than one excursion We heard planned by those
Of our party who have time and money to car
~ ont their intentions, and who are not vet
satnl with the beauty i'll which they have rev.
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