Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1856-01-03
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igensral attractions of our Territory
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lsnbioined stn;e,ne at ~ being is nearly
trtf6 III any that can bc gwen Of the
lgencistl features Ill any new country
WITHIN Tie llMitst XII au ordinary fne ws-pa-
\ fp4rA artieles 'Ehe Repnbiiyan Says 49,
sss Minnesota u Switzerland . Without
hts mountains3 tahd ten tiincs as large
Stand at 4 point HeEr the centre and the
waters hoW from yop ii every direction.
Here Lake Itasca braid into \ knot the
| tiny rivulets which mile TO form q chan
mel for the great Mississippi there Ell
bow Lake, Lake Traverse and Otter
Tail Lake, pour their limpid flood into
ihe small beginning ofthe Red River
of the North, which after tAowiEg,sfor
600 miles, debouches into Hudson's
Bay. Here the waters of By Stone
Lake the mass Of rock which gives them
name, and findthei outlet ia Minneso-
Ita, the largest Territorial tribanary Of
the Mississippi: and there the great
Sioux starts otto swell the turbld tide
Iofthe Missouri. Farther II the north
west are the sources Of 4 stream, four
hundred miles long, which the Dakotas
call Tchan San-san, but which we, af-
ter the French, call james river also
a branch Of the Missouri Ear away to
the northeast 81. Louis and Rainy Lake
Rivers make their draft upon the aque-
Gus resources Of our Territory to supply
the chain Of Great Lakes, the Falls Of
Niagara, and the distant st Lawrence.
We export water, therefore, not only TO
Hudsofi's Bay and the Gulf Ut Mexico,
but also to the Atlantic by the way uf
the Provinces Of Canada a remark APP
plicable to no other partlof North Am
erica, and justifying the alusion to
Switzerland, from which. streams flow
east to the Black Sea, south to the Med
literranean, west to the Bay Of Riscay,
and northto the North Sea, and also 10
| the Baltic. ~ saqs psfa asf#s saaslES
The very name,of the Territory con-
veys an allusion to- our n sky blue wa
ter - and the abundance Of that elem
ent taken in connection with the fertility
Of the soil and loneliness of the scenery,
will show that the, scriptural phrase,
ssa well watcrsa garden" il a tdescript-
| i've epithet byr means ipapt 81. extray-
agant. Water forms our entire vest
ern- boundary, nearly alI The eastern,
and mare than one-third oft the northern
and southern. no allsthe above mem
tened large rivers In the interior d
hundted smaller streams pay, tribute.
The country IS also full of lakes and
ponds so that, lis Owens Geological
report expresses II, - il sdrase sections
one can hardly travel five miles without
coming 70 ono Of, these: sheets of watar.'' II
There are literally thousands Of these
transparent graysl-bpttommed lakes,
many (Which have no visible outlet.
but are IL a by Unseen springs and Weld
up their excess to the att,nctions sof she
sun, or filter it away Through the porous
earth. Many of the .strcams also ex-
pand into lakes like jordan into Genes
afet and So numerous are these river
lakes. thatif onpA could rise high enough
to look on the whole Of Minnesota, it
would,appearsin gthe clear light ofsour
northern sun, 1, bespangled with silver
beads scattered in rich disorder over the
land, or strung carefully on silver
strings, here winding into curve, there
drawn out into line; here ff,ddIed
promiscuously together, there separat-
ed by emerald prairics or waving for
ests. n.
Probably in 40 part Of the West is the
water SO pure Or SO well distributed,
But with all this abundance Of lakes
and streams Minnesota lis not noun
famous nor is much; Of lii hilly, as
eastern people use that term. The land,
however,is uneven or rolling, and grad
tally rises as II sire cedes from the pfihL
cipai streams, furnishing many nagnifie-
ent slopes, "A range Of highlands.com-
mencss, il the extreme northeast al, the
Territory, bearing in that region the
name Of. Misabay Heights, runs vest
feffy for about one hundred miles, scurk
around the head waters of the sNlissisa
1 sippi, them curves inanapposite direct
ion about. the head waters. Of the Red
| River, and then divides into two ranges,