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La Montaigne qui l'rompc dans l'Eau stands in the .Mississippi neat· the E. shore, about 50 miles below the Sauteaux river, ancl i ~ about two miles in circumference, with an elevation of two ln1ndrcd feet, covered with timbe1·. There is a small rivet· which empties into the :Mississippi, in thereat· of tl~e mountain, which, 1 concei ve, once hounded the mountain on the lower siue, and the Mississippi on the upper, when the mountain was joined to the main by ~ neck of p1·ai1·ie low ground, which in time was wom away by tl1c ::: prin )~ freshcs of the Missbsippi; ~mu thus formed an \sland of tl~ is ~cle~ hrated mountain. Lake Pepin t so called by the French,) appears to be only an expansion of the Mississippi. It commences ut the cnu·ance of the Sauteau~ river, and bears N. 55 \V. to Point de Sable 12 m~les, which is a neck of land making- out ab:mt one mile into the lake frOtl) the \ V. shore, and is the narrowest part of th~ lake. From here to the uppet· end the course is 11eady due W . about 10 miles, making- its whole length 22 miles, and from four to one and a half miles in width, the bt•ottde<;t part being in the bay below Point de Sable. This is a beautiful place; the contrast of the Missi!>sippi full of isla11cls, and the lake with not one in its \~holt; extent, gives more force to the grandeur of the scene. The Ft·ench, under the government of 1\I. Frontenac, cli'Ove the Heynards (o~ Ottaquamies) from the Ouiscousing, aud pursued them up the Mississippi, and, as a barrier, built a stockade on Lake Pepin, on the W. shore, just below Point de able; and, as was gcnemiJy the case with that nation, blended the military and tpercantile professions, by making their ion a factory for the Sioux. The lake, at the uppet' end, is three fathoms deep; but this, I am informed, is its shoalest pat·t. From the Iowa rivet· to the head of Luke Pepin, the elk an. the PI'Cvailing species of wild game, wilh some deer, and a few bear.· From the head of Lakl! Pepin about 12 miles to the Canno1~ river, the Mississippi is branched out into many channels, anu it~ bosom covered with 11umcrous islands. There is a hill on the \V: sho1·e, about six miles above the lake called the Grang·e, from th :! summit of which yotJ huvc oue of the most delightful prospects in. ~Hitu~·e. When turning your face to the E. you have the l'iver wind· 111 ~ ln tht•cc channels at yout· feet; ou your dght the extensive bosom of the lake, uounded by its chain of hills, in front over the Mississ' · · ·' . . tppt, a Wlue extended pt·airie; on the left the valley of th~ MtsMssii)lli ' open to v1· cw qm· te tot 1t e S t. C r01· x, anu. • pat·tly ·t n your rear, the valley thr~11~h which passes the Hivier~ (11.1. <;rJ.no11; a~~ 7 |