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424 St. Croix Co.

about three or four miles: the water is clear and deep. "Its banks" according to Mr. Schoolcraft" are high and afford a series of picturesque views which [keep] the eye constantly on that stretch. The country is an upland prairie, interspered with groves and majestic eminences. The waters are beautifully transparent & the margin exhibits a pebbly beach, so clearly washed that it would scarcely afford earth enough to stain the fairest shoe. If 'Loch Katrine' presents a more attractive outline of Sylvian coast, it must be beautiful indeed. We went up it turning point after point, with the pleasure that novelty imparts, aided by the chanting of the canoe men." This lake is now rendered memorable as the scene of a bloody battle between those warlike tribes and natural enemies, the Chippewas and Sioux (Dacotas), in the summer of 1839.

424 St. Croix Co.

about three or four miles: the water is clear and deep. "Its banks" according to Mr. Schoolcraft" are high and afford a series of picturesque views which [keep] the eye constantly on that stretch. The country is an upland prairie, interspered with groves and majestic eminences. The waters are beautifully transparent & the margin exhibits a pebbly beach, so clearly washed that it would scarcely afford earth enough to stain the fairest shoe. If 'Loch Katrine' presents a more attractive outline of Sylvian coast, it must be beautiful indeed. We went up it turning point after point, with the pleasure that novelty imparts, aided by the chanting of the canoe men." This lake is now rendered memorable as the scene of a bloody battle between those warlike tribes and natural enemies, the Chippewas and Sioux (Dacotas), in the summer of 1839.