Who that has seen Fort Snelling will not bear testimony to its beautiful situation! Whichever way we turn, nature calls for our admiration.

But beautiful as it is by day, it is at night that its majesty and loveliness speak to the soul.

Look to the north, (while the Aurora Borealis is flashing above us, and the sound of the waters of St.
Anthony's Falls meets the ear,) the high bluffs of the Mississippi seem to guard its waters as they glide along.

To the south, the St.Peter's has wandered off, preferring gentle prairies to rugged cliffs.

To the east we see the "meeting of the waters;" gladly as the returning child meets the welcoming smile of the parent, do the waves of the St.Peter's flow into the Mississippi.