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inconsistency. When any of us return to our former homes at the
east or make more extended tours, let us be able to exhibit to our
enquiring friends, the country of our adoption in its true and prop-
er light. We should be ever ready and able to show our friends
and others, what Wisconsin is, is geographically, physically, moral-
ly and politically; we should be ever ready and able to exhibit an account of
the abundant resources, of nearly every kind, with which a bounti
ful providence has graciously supplied her. We should be able to
impart information respecting the rivers, mountains, prairies, for-
ests, lead mines, copper mines and iron mountains; her mammoth
caves and other wonders of nature with which she abounds.

To be able to do all this we have only to open our
eyes and observe the things by which we are surrounded. we must
not glide down the stream of the time completely absorbed in the bus-
iness and cares of life, but must occasionally break off from them
and take a peep at the country.

A trip across Wisconsin to the Mississippi river, and
up that noble stream to the Falls of St. Anthony would do any of us
more good than harm. If we should here take an Indian bark canoe
and cross over to Lake Superior it would be all the better. The
slight interruption of our business affairs would be more than
compensated by the knowledge we should acquire of the country; to
say nothing of the beneficial effects in re-animating our minds
and spirits and in the improvement of our bodily health and vigor.

There is no natural scenery in the world more beautiful
than may be seen from the tops of the Blue Mound, the Platte
Mound, and th "montagne que dans a l'eau," on Lake Pepin,