http://www.rakemag.com/tags/mississippi The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.rakemag.com/reporting/features/moving-water-and-earth <!--paging_filter-->When Father Louis Hennepin first saw the great falls of the Mississippi in 1680, he was on furlough from a prolonged captivity at Mille Lacs Lake. The Flemish cleric and his Dakota escorts portaged downstream along the east bank on what is now Main Street in Minneapolis, then beheld the cataract he would later document to be forty or fifty feet high. This figure was exaggerated (though somewhat prescient), but empirical accuracy was never a missionary priority, and Hennepin ventured only to tally souls.<p><a href="http://www.rakemag.com/reporting/features/moving-water-and-earth">read more</a></p> http://www.rakemag.com/reporting/features/moving-water-and-earth#comments Mississippi science st. anthony falls university of Minnesota water Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 admin 4216 at http://www.rakemag.com