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36 & by drift logs of huge size, pine trees escaped from the forests one hundred miles above the falls of St Antony. - At last we emerged into the broad & rapid river & I lay in the bottom of the canoe, lazily admiring the scenery of this most beautiful of rivers until we reached St Paul & I landed again among the voyageurs, Yankees?, French & Indians, with their peltries, notions?, oxen, & pipes. - June 24th 1851. Left St Paul for Fort Snelling where I arrived in an hour & was politely received by Franklin Steele Esq. to whom I had a letter, he introduced me to his wife, formerly Miss Barney of Baltimore - I was enabled to procure board at Mr Prescotts the interpreter & superintendant of Indian farming - He is an old resident of this country & familiar with the In-