Source of the Mississippi.

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1034, 15 January 1887, Page 3

Source of the Mississippi.

The newly found source of the Mississippi is a sparkling little gem of a lake situated above and beyond Lake Itasca. It nestles among the pines of an unfrequented and wild region of Minnesota, many miles from the nearest white settlement, and just on the dividing ridge which forms the great watershed of North America. Within a few miles of it can be found lakes and streams whose waters are tributary to the Red River of the North and the Yellowstone, thus reaching the sea thousands of miles from the mouth of the mighty Mississippi, which flows in a trickling brook from Lake Glazier. This This lake, discovered to be the true source of the greatest river of North America by Capt. Willard Glazier, on the 22nd of July, 1881, is about a mile and half in greatest diameter, and would be nearly round in shape but for a single promontory, whose rocky shores give it in outline the shape of a heart. The waters of the lake are exceedingly clear and pure, coming from springs, some being at the bottom, but the three most prominent rise a few miles hack in low, wetland, and flow into the lake in little rills. On the very point of the promontory is a spring whose waters are as cold as ice, and at which Capt. Glazier’s weary party slaked their thirst while exploring thr shores of the new lake. So lonely is the region around the lake that for fourteen days not even a redskin was seen, and wsaried by the hardships of this rough country, yet with a feeling of having added something to geographical knowledge, Capt Glazier and his party were glad to come into contact again with their fellow-creatures.—Phila-delphia Times.