. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . e Indian pipes, but the ordinary wild-flowers are not to be found. Over towardthe British Landing stand the Gothic spires of the blue-green spruces, and now and thenan Indian trail crosses the road, worn deep by the feet of the red-men, when the FairyIsland was their favorite and sacred resort. The Arch Rock, one of the curiosities of Mackinac, is a natural bridge, one hun-dred and
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . e Indian pipes, but the ordinary wild-flowers are not to be found. Over towardthe British Landing stand the Gothic spires of the blue-green spruces, and now and thenan Indian trail crosses the road, worn deep by the feet of the red-men, when the FairyIsland was their favorite and sacred resort. The Arch Rock, one of the curiosities of Mackinac, is a natural bridge, one hun-dred and forty-five feet high by less than three feet wide, spanning the chasm with airygrace. This arch has been excavated by the action of the weather on a projecting angle MACKINAC. 289 of the limestone cliff. The beds forming the summit of the arch are cut off from di-rect connection with the main rock by a narrow gorge of no great depth. The portionsupporting the arch on the north side, and the curve of the arch itself, are comparativelyfragile, and cannot long resist the action of rains and frosts, which in this latitude, andon a rock thus constituted, produce great ravages every season. The arch is peculiarly. Robinsons Folly. beautiful when silvered with the light of the moon, and hence on moonlight nightsstrangers on the island always visit it. Fairy Arch is of similar formation to Arch Rock, and lifts from the sands with agrace and beauty that justify- the name bestowed upon it. The Sugar-Loaf is a conical rock, one hundred and thirty-four feet high, standing alone in hoary majesty in the midst of a grassy plain. 37 290 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. The Lovers Leap, on the western shore, is two hundred feet high, rising from thelake hke a rocky column, and separated from the adjoining bank by a deep chasm. Thelegend, as usual, is of an Indian squaw, who, standing on the rock, waiting and watch-ing for the return of her lover from battle, saw the warriors bringing his dead body tothe
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