The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . swalls and ceiling, in its floors and its weather-worn exterior, stands with-out any change, the same to-day as when first built. PoNTiAcs Lookout, a cliff on the south shore, beyond the Grand Hoteland the West End, commands one of the finest views on the island. Thename is a fitting recognition of Pontiacs place in the history of the region;although it is possible that he himself never looked out from the rock. The view takes in a wide sweep. On the right we may look throughthe Straits to Lake Michigan ; opposite is Mackinaw City
The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . swalls and ceiling, in its floors and its weather-worn exterior, stands with-out any change, the same to-day as when first built. PoNTiAcs Lookout, a cliff on the south shore, beyond the Grand Hoteland the West End, commands one of the finest views on the island. Thename is a fitting recognition of Pontiacs place in the history of the region;although it is possible that he himself never looked out from the rock. The view takes in a wide sweep. On the right we may look throughthe Straits to Lake Michigan ; opposite is Mackinaw City; then the SouthChannel, with the smoke rising above Cheboygan in the far distance;Rois Blanc and Round Islands; and on the left, seen through the Straits,stretches Huron. Beneath us decline the wooded island slopes to the curv-ing shore; and beyond are the Grand Hotel and the town. It is a noble prospect, and one to stir the imagination, to repeopleMackinac with its ancient denizens, to restore the wigwams to the shore, the M THE STASDARD GUlDll. ?1 ^mwPic. THE SAINTE MARIE IN THE ICE. upturned canoes, the smoke rising from the camp-fires, and the duskygroups of men and women with the children at play. We may see infancy the bark canoes of Marquette and Joliet setting out on their ever-memorable expedition to the Mississippi, and we may watch the longprocession of Chippewas and Hurons convoying the reclaimed relics oftheir beloved priest to his resting place at St. Ignace. Again, we mayfollow the peltry laden canoe of the couriers des bois, its crew with steadystroke keeping time to the Canadian boat-song, breaking now into shoutsand cheers, as they leap out on the shore, glad to see white men onceagain, and after the long months of isolation among savages eager to meetthe newcomers from Montreal and hear tidings from La Belle France andhome. Or from the lookout we may see, rounding Bois Blanc, La SallesGriffin, first vessel on the Great Lakes, and prototype of the mighty flee
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