Minnesota and Its Resources: To which are Appended Camp-fire Sketches, Or, Notes of a Trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk Settlement on the Red River of the North |
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Page 97 - ... thickly-inhabited district; but if the growth of timber be encouraged, as the population gradually increases, a deficiency may never be experienced. Throughout the greater part of this region, the traveller is surprised and charmed with the everchanging variety and beauty of the scenery. The alluvial land bordering upon the river, varies in width from a quarter of a mile to a mile or more. The greater portion of this constitutes numerous natural meadows, covered annually with a luxuriant growth...
Page 292 - As I pass slowly along the lonely road that leads me from thee, Selkirk, mine eyes do turn continually to gaze upon thy smiling, golden fields, and thy lofty towers now burnished with the rays of the departing sun ; while the sweet vesperbell reverberates afar, and strikes so mournfully pleasant upon mine ear.
Page 239 - ... fringes. His dwelling, if he had one, was a wigwam. He lounged on a bear-skin while his squaw boiled his venison and lighted his pipe. In hunting, in dancing, in singing, in taking a scalp, he rivalled the genuine Indian.
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