. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. asy a task as it would be to-day. It was partly accom-plished by hauling over the ice the heavy cedar timbers of the barracks andother buildings, and the remainder were transported in the fall of 1780and in the spring of 1781. In the same way, indeed, the timbers of theCatholic church were carried to the island and reconstructed on what isnow the Astor-street grave-yard. The traders and others who moved with the deserting government, floated their dwellings on rafts across thestrait in the spring, and transported their families and eff
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. asy a task as it would be to-day. It was partly accom-plished by hauling over the ice the heavy cedar timbers of the barracks andother buildings, and the remainder were transported in the fall of 1780and in the spring of 1781. In the same way, indeed, the timbers of theCatholic church were carried to the island and reconstructed on what isnow the Astor-street grave-yard. The traders and others who moved with the deserting government, floated their dwellings on rafts across thestrait in the spring, and transported their families and effects in boats. Itwas a busy period, that of the military hegira, and gave unusual life to theisland while yet half buried in the snow and ice. The first partial occupation of the new post was delayed until the endof May, when military life began in earnest. The present flourishing cityof Ignace—sometimes not inaptly called The Gate City of the UpperPeninsula of Michigan, being its water and railway portal—was for a score THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC 2/. ARCH ROCK, MACKINAC ISLAND. [From a recent photograph^ 28 THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC of years undoubtedly the chief military and commercial centre of Michili-mackinac. It was also its first field of Jesuit missionary labors, openedperhaps by Father Marquette, but more probably by Father Dablon, in1671. The latter was the superior of the Jesuits of the upper lakes, andestablished the mission of St. Ignatius to replace the relinquished one ofLa Ste. Esprit, on Lake Superior. La Pointe de St. Ignace was already anextensive Indian settlement, and several villages clustering there couldaggregate possibly six or seven thousand savages of various tribes, butlargely Hurons. It was from this point that Marquette with several companions—Frenchmen—departed by authority in 1673, to search for the GreatRiver, which was the name by which the Mississippi was then vaguelydesignated. He sickened and died on the adventure, and his body wasb
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