Difference between revisions of "Minnesota"

<p> One of the United States of America; lies between the Dakotas on the W. and [[Wisconsin]] on the E., [[Canada]] on the N., and [[Iowa]] on the S., round the upper waters of the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, and the Red River of the North; the State is largely prairie, with hundreds of lakes, the largest Red Lake, and is chiefly a wheat-producing area; there are pine forests in the N., iron mines, slate and granite quarries; the climate is dry, equable, and bracing; education is good; the State university is at Minneapolis; the capital is </p> <p> here the [[Mississippi]] is still navigable, a fine city, founded in 1840, the centre of the grocery and dry-goods trade; the largest city is Minneapolis, which has great lumber and flour mills; [[Duluth]] has a magnificent harbour and good shipping trade. </p>