. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . mp;Lyons, proprietors. This house is situated close tothe waters of the bay, and is a charming locationfor a summer home. Mesdames Williams andSherman kee
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . mp;Lyons, proprietors. This house is situated close tothe waters of the bay, and is a charming locationfor a summer home. Mesdames Williams andSherman keep excellent boarding houses. Therates for private board range from $6 to $12 perweek. A daily line of Pullman Palace Cars is runbetween Chicago and Marquette, by the Chicago &North-Western Railway Company. Marquette, as a watering place, cannot well beexcelled. Romantic scen-ery surrounding one onevery side, a cool, bracingatmosphere, which, tothose who may be suffer-ing from the heat of asummer sun, is, as itwere, the balm ofGilead. In the fore-ground a beautiful bayspreads away to the dis-tant shore (which is oftencompared to the bay ofVenice), whose silverywaters often lie like animmense mirror beneaththe rays of the settingsun, and when dottedwith vessels and steam-ers, presents a sceneworthy the pencil of anartist. Salmon troutabound in its waters, andare often taken by trol-ling, weighing from fiveto twenty-five pounds each. The Falls of Minnehaha, Minn.—page 90 One person not infre-quently captures from one to twenty fish per day,in the season. There are a number of streams inthe vicinity, where the speckled beauties are await-ing the fly of the angler. Marquette has a population of about 8,000. It islighted with gas, and is supplied with water fromthe cool, crystal lake by the Holly water system. To the invalid or tourist, needing a few weeksrecreation, we-recommend them by all means toseek the pure air and splendid climate in andaround the fair city of Marquette. Sai
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