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then anon the river widens, and a ni3st charming and magnificent
view of the valley before us suddenly bursts upon our vision ; rugged
hills, clad with verdant forests from summit to base, level prairie
lands, holding in their lap the beautiful Wabasha, City of the Healing
Waters, puissant foe of Bright's disease, and that grandest conception
of nature's works, incomparable Lake Pepin—these constitute a pic-
ture whereon the tourist's eye may gaze uncounted hours, with rapture
unappeased and unappeasable.

THE MAIDEN'S BOCK.

* And so we glide along j in due time encountering those majestic
domes, the mighty Sugar Loaf, and the sublime Maiden's Rock—
which latter, romantic superstition has invested with & voice; and
oft-times as the birch canoe glides near, at twilight, tlie dusky pwMler
fancies he hears the soft sweet music of the long-departed WIs
darling of Indian song and story.