On its shores the traveller gathers white and red agates, and sometimes specimens streaked with veins of gold color.

The lover reads the motto from his mistress' seal, not thinking that the beautiful stone which made the impression, was found on the banks of Lake Pepin.
At the south end of the lake, the Chippeway river empties into the Mississippi.
The Maiden's rock is a high bluff, whose top seems to lean over towards the water.

With this rock is associated one of the most interesting traditions of the Sioux.
But the incident is well-known.

Almost every one has read it a dozen times, and always differently told.

Some represent the maiden as delivering an oration from the top of the rock, long enough for an address at a college celebration.