A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . the De-troit railroad; and stage-coaches run toChicago through Michigan city. Mackinac.—This town is situated onthe southeast extremity of Mackinacisland. The public buildings are thecourthouse, two churches, a school ofthe American board of commissionersf )r foreign missions, a Roman catholicmissionary school, and a bi-anch of theuniversity. It has over 1,000 harbor is large enough for one hun-dred and fifty vessels, and a valuablefishery is carri
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . the De-troit railroad; and stage-coaches run toChicago through Michigan city. Mackinac.—This town is situated onthe southeast extremity of Mackinacisland. The public buildings are thecourthouse, two churches, a school ofthe American board of commissionersf )r foreign missions, a Roman catholicmissionary school, and a bi-anch of theuniversity. It has over 1,000 harbor is large enough for one hun-dred and fifty vessels, and a valuablefishery is carried on, which suppliesa considerable export trade, above threethousand barrels of white-fish and troutbeing sent out annually. A considera-ble amount of business is annually donein the fur trade. Mackinac consists of three slightwooden piers, a water street and a backstreet, with perhaps sixty houses onboth. The fort stands to the right ofthe village, on the brow of the eminence,is built of a porous, shelly limestone,and has a tolerable command of themain passage out of Lake Michigan intoLake Huron; but it happens to be it-. 522 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. self commanded by a higher eminence,a mile west of it, which the British si-lently seized and fortified at the out-bi-eak of the war of 1812, placing gunsthere in battery and summoning ourcommandant to surrender before he sus-pected even that war was declared. Mackinac has a commanding view ofLakes Michigan and Huron, with thesurrounding isles, headlands and air is very pure, and there is sometimber, but it is mainly covered withlow, shrub-like evergreens—fir, spruce,&c. It is among the coldest spots with-in the limits of our Union. The apple-tree blossoms, but does not bear there,any more than at the Sault. The soil is mostly gravelly and rockof a limestone nature. In traversingthe island, which is about ten milesin circumference, we find but three farms,and they not much laid under ,
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