sentences:  It then went south down the east bank of that river on a smooth and open glacial outwash sandplain to Sauk Rapids and East Saint Cloud.The final lap of the trail to Saint Paul, which had replaced Mendota as the principal "entrepôt" for the cart trade, continued along the sandplain on the east bank of the Mississippi.This route ran within a few miles of the river to Saint Anthony Falls and the community of that name which was growing on the east bank of the Mississippi.