1

135

De Soto,

6

141

Victory,

10

151

Badaxe City,

10

161

Warner’s Landing,

6

167

Brownsville,

10

177

La Crosse,

12

189

Dacotah,

12

201

Richmond,

6

207

Monteville,

5

212

Homer,

10

222

Winona,

7

229

Fountain City,

12

241

Mount Vernon,

14

255

Minneiska,

4

259

Alma,

15

274

Wabashaw,

10

284

Nelson’s Landing,

3

287

Reed’s Landing,

2

289

Foot of Lake Pepin,

2

291

North Pepin,

6

297

Johnstown,

2

299

Lake City,

5

304

Central Point,

2

306

Florence,

3

309

Maiden Rock,

3

312

Westerville,

3

315

Wacouta,

12

327

Red Wing,

6

333

Thing’s Landing,

7

340

Diamond bluff,

8

348

Prescott,

13

361

Point Douglass,

1

362

Hastings,

3

365

Grey Cloud,

12

377

Pine Bend,

4

381

Red Rock,

8

389

Kaposia,

3

392

St. Paul,

5

397

]

The scenery on the upper Mississippi is reputed to be beautiful.  So it is.  Yet all river scenery is generally monotonous.  One gets tired of looking at high rocky ridges quite as quickly as at more tame and tranquil scenery.  The bluffs on either side of the Mississippi, for most of the way between Dunleith and St. Anthony’s Falls, constitute some of the most beautiful river scenery in the world.  It is seldom that they rise over two hundred feet from the water level, and their height is quite uniform, so that from a distant point of view their summit resembles a huge fortification.  Nor, as a general thing, do they present a bold or rocky front.  The rise from the river is gradual.  Sometimes they rise to a sharp peak, towards the top of which crops out in half circles heavy ridges of limestone.  The ravines which seem to divide them into separate elevations, are more thickly wooded, and appear to