A.Vn COXCLISIO.\S.

Sixteen raih-oads meet in Minneapolis, and sixty-five
trains arrive and depart daily.

In this place, as in St. Paul, journalism thrives. Here there are
three great dailies, ten weeklies, and three monthlies.

There is a university, with four hundred students—and, better
still, its good efforts are not confined to enlightening th<» one sex.
There are sixteen public schools, with buildings which co^t $500,00*1 :

MINNEAPOLIS AND THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY.
there are six thousand pupils and one hundred and twenty~<eight
teachers. There are also seventy churches existing, and * lot more
projected. The banks aggregate a capital of $3,000,000, a»d the
wholesale jobbing trade of the town amounts to $50,000,000 a yewr.
Near St. Paul and Minneapolis are several points of interest—
Fort Snelling, a fortress occupying a river-bluiF a hundred feet high ;
the falls of Minnehaha; White-bear Lake, and so forth. Theb«Jttti-
ful fells of Minnehaha are sufficiently celebrated—tfeer do i*0fc aecd m
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