Excerpt from Wonderland, 1902Just eleven miles from the Union Station, St. Paul, lies the lake known among the Indians as the lake of the White Bear. It is St. Paul's summer resort, a beautiful sheet of water entirely free from rocks, shoals, or other obstructions, and furnishing an ideal yachting course. Its dimensions four miles long by two miles wide, covering some acres in extent - hardly convey an idea of its apparent size. Its shore line is very irregular, beautifully wooded and turfed, and with various summer resorts and club houses dotting it. Manitou Island is an aristocratic isle of royal cottages, curving drives, and old time trees.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.