Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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of the infatuation, and in haste sent his son eastward for a years visit among theAtlantic cities, hoping that the change and an insight into fashionable life would weanhim from his dark-skinned love. But no; for a time after his return he did not speak 464 PICTURESQUE AMERICA, of her, neither did he seek the wigwam. But suddenly it all came back in an hour,and one morning he was missing, nor could any trace be found until an old fishermanbrought word that he had seen the youth paddling toward the west in a canoe, with theIndian girl in the stern, decked in all her finery of feather-work and beads. The bridewas a Roman Catholic, like most of the Chippewas, and the two were married by amission-priest. The father pursued, but it was too late. At the head of Lake Superior is the St. Louis River; here Wisconsin ends andMinnesota begins. The town of Duluth, named after a French explorer who visited itssite in 1680, is but three years old, and yet is called the Chicago of Lake Superior; it
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Baptism Bay. has four thousand inhabitants, and stands at the extreme western end of the GreatChain. Quebec stands at the eastern end, for the St. Lawrence beyond is but an armof the sea ; and seventeen hundred and fifty miles lie between. Beyond Duluth beginsthe North Shore; and these words call up visions of grandeur, of gold and silver, ofadventure and danger, not unlike the dreams of the first white men on the shores ofMexico. The long coast, the arc of the bow, is even now but vaguely known, for,although a few settlements have been made where silver exists, they are ^but dots onthe line, and the map-makers are obliged either to leave their paper blank, or fill it upfrom imagination and the vague stories of the hunters. The veil of mystery adds, no LAKE SUPERIOR. 405 doubt, a charm; but, nevertheless, the surveys, as far as they have gone, verify the vi-sions, and the silver sent down to the lower-lake towns fairly exceeds the descriptions ofthe discoverers. Until within a few yea

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