DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D. C., March 27, 1847

• Early St. Louis River description

Page 2 begins with over a full column on the: "Great Western Water-Fall - The St. Louis River" with descriptive text on several waterfalls along this waterway.
Page 3 has Mexican War news with; "From A Gentleman of the Medical Staff" from Saltillo. Then: "From Gen. Taylor to the War Department" from Agua Nueva. Also: "Official Letter from a Paymaster at Monterey" and: "From Captain Montgomery at Monterey".
Also a nice article on: "The Stone Mountain of Georgia...".
Four pages, very nice condition.

Background: The March 27, 1847 issue of Washington, D.C.'s Daily National Intelligencer highlights a prominent, full-column feature on page two titled "Great Western Water-Fall - The St. Louis River," which provides detailed, evocative descriptions of the series of cascades, chutes, and rugged rock gorges along the St. Louis River near Lake Superior in present-day Minnesota. The piece captures the romantic 19th-century fascination with the American frontier by vividly detailing the natural grandeur of the river’s dramatic drop through jagged slate formations—a treacherous stretch historically bypassed by Ojibwe traders and European voyageurs via the Grand Portage of the St. Louis, and known today as the Dalles of the St. Louis within Jay Cooke State Park.