. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. from Green Bay, but did not again reach St. Ignace, and it is sup-posed was wrecked in a storm off the entrance of Green Bay. Of the island one writer has said : There is nothing in the west likeMackinac. It has the flavor of some Acadian towns, to be seen in NovaScotia and New Brunswick. Low-browed, heavily built shops and houses, THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC 29 some of which being removed to make way for modern stores and villas,show timber enough to build a small ship. As a verification of thisapparently loose utterance, it may be sta
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. from Green Bay, but did not again reach St. Ignace, and it is sup-posed was wrecked in a storm off the entrance of Green Bay. Of the island one writer has said : There is nothing in the west likeMackinac. It has the flavor of some Acadian towns, to be seen in NovaScotia and New Brunswick. Low-browed, heavily built shops and houses, THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC 29 some of which being removed to make way for modern stores and villas,show timber enough to build a small ship. As a verification of thisapparently loose utterance, it may be stated here that on the low ceilingof the bar and billiard-room of the Astor House at Mackinac, now one ofits principal hotels (three-quarters of a century ago only a prominentstore-house of the American Fur Company), there is deeply chiseled uponone of its stout cross-beams the line— 147 PINES USED IN this village is unique, and of itself has charms not by any means in-significant. It is rapidly growing in population, at least in homes and. BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN FUR COMPANY. [From a recent photograph of the books kept by John Jacob Astor, nozv preserved inan iron chest at Mackinac Island ] club-houses ; and its throng of summer visitors and residents multiply itsshops and houses of entertainment. It is not surprising that the abundant romance of Mackinac story hasembellished and lent a charm to the writings of numerous authors whouse the pen for the public delight. Constance Woolson and MarionHarland have each given at least one volume to this fruitful theme, togetherwith various magazine papers and short sketches. Miss Woolson writes: The island has a strange sufficiency of its own ; all who have livedthere love it. The island has a weird beauty of its own ; it its aromatic cedars, along the aisles of its odorous pine-trees, inthe gay company of its maples, there is companionship. On its boldnorthern cliffs, bathed in sunshine and swept by the p
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