. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . n the upper part of the Channeaux Islands, an enchantingarchipelago of some seventy-five or eighty beautiful islands, varying from two miles in length to meregreen specks a hundred feet across, dotting the crystal waters which rush by, fifteen fathoms deep at theshores, and swarming with whitefish, bass, pike, pickerel, the gamy muskalonge and the lake floating clovid or gleam of sunshine changes the glorious scene by varying the tintings of the waters,which range through every shade from deepest azure to
. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . n the upper part of the Channeaux Islands, an enchantingarchipelago of some seventy-five or eighty beautiful islands, varying from two miles in length to meregreen specks a hundred feet across, dotting the crystal waters which rush by, fifteen fathoms deep at theshores, and swarming with whitefish, bass, pike, pickerel, the gamy muskalonge and the lake floating clovid or gleam of sunshine changes the glorious scene by varying the tintings of the waters,which range through every shade from deepest azure to palest opal-green, from purple and lavender topurest silver. It is truly a realm of enchantment. Delicious musings fill the heart, and images of bUss. In such a spot, with the glories of earth and heaven forever unrolled before the gaze, where theatmosphere is as pure as the gales that wandered over primeval paradise, where the temperature is alwayscool enough to be bracing and invigorating, where a fly or mosquito never was seen, where the inducements MACKINAC ISLAND. 39. to constant exercise of every sense and sinew are as boundless as the beauties of theplace, and where the healing fragrance of the pine and hemlock and balsam-fir areborne on every breeze, dyspepsia, languor and low spirits take flight at once, hay-fever ^victims are at rest, and sniffling catarrhs and wheezing asthmas breathefree as sylvan flutes by Pan or Orpheus blown. Rusty joints cease to squeak,canes and braces are laid aside, and the querulous invalid, before he knows it,finds himself boating, fishing, strolling, flirting like a prize athlete or aHarvard freshman. It is a realm of rosy health and jocund mirth, whereevery prospect pleases, and man is only vile when he tries three times ashard to be so as he would have to anywhere might Hon. Horace Mann, writing of the in-fluence of < The Wonderful Isle, say: I never breathed such an air think that this must be some that came clear
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