The royal halls and chambers of Undine meet the view, with gardens of emeralds and gem-bearing ferns.

It kindles one's fancy to gaze long into these crystal caverns, and a practical mind could hardly resist here the poetic sense of Fouque that created Undine.
The Black Eagle Falls, with its great nest and marvelous fountains, was a favorite resort of the Blackfeet Indians and other Indian tribes.

It is related in the old traditions that the Piegans, on one of their expeditions against the Crows, rested here, and became enchanted with the fountain: "Hither came the warrior Piegans On their way to fight the Crow; Stood upon its verge, and wondered What could mean the power below." The Piegans were filled with awe that the fountain rose and fell and gurgled, as if in spasms of pain.

They sent for a native medicine-man.
"Why is the fountain troubled ?" they asked.
"This," said the Indian prophet, "is the pure stream that flows through the earth to the sun.

It asks for offerings.