Excerpt from Geographical and Statistical History of Steele County: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time; Embracing Leading Incidents of Pioneer Life, Names of Early Settlers, Nature of Soil, Advantages to Settlers, &C., &C A short distance to the eastward the same process is enacted over again, and the rivers empty their waters into Lake Superior, from which they take their way, flowing through the chain of the great lakes, and leaving Lake Ontario, the noble St. Lawrence rolls on eastward to the Atlantic ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.