What a coincident variety of impressions! Man has never before witnessed a picture, to which the united efforts of nature and art have given such rare beauty and attractions. Imagine yourself on the glittering waters, gently washing the feet of the heaven-aspiring Alleghanies; cast a glance about their majestic peaks and you will detect here and there a magnificent edifice overlooking the delightful panorama of verdant grandeur below. Let me lead you nearer to one of these stately palaces, and you will have a faint conception of the vision I am about to describe. I was also led along a wide boulevard, approaching the "Castle of Many Spires", and in ascending, what infinite variety of the rarest plants and trees did I not observe, which indiscriminately afforded shelter to every sort of fowl and beast. Boasting of perennial green, the slender pine matched its dignity beside the sturdy oak; the costly
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COLLEGEVILLE, STEARNS COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Vol. XXV
NOVEMBER
Number 9
(Eastb nf Hattg
What a coincident variety of impressions! Man has never before witnessed a picture, to which the united efforts of nature and art have given such rare beauty and attractions. Imagine yourself on the glittering waters, gently washing the feet of the heaven-aspiring Alleghanies; cast a glance about their majestic peaks and you will detect here and there a magnificent edifice overlooking the delightful panorama of verdant grandeur below. Let me lead you nearer to one of these stately palaces, and you will have a faint conception of the vision I am about to describe. I was also led along a wide boulevard, approaching the "Castle of Many Spires", and in ascending, what infinite variety of the rarest plants and trees did I not observe, which indiscriminately afforded shelter to every sort of fowl and beast. Boasting of perennial green, the slender pine matched its dignity beside the sturdy oak; the costly
