. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . r of the town, fifty feet above the level ofthe great lake in front. St. Ignace was the burial place of Marquette, who founded the missionof St. Ignatius here in 1670. The original name of the Point in the Iroquoistongue was Nau-do-wa-qua-au-me, or Iroquois Womans Point. The peopleare intelligent and hospitable, and gladly render visitorsevery assistance and courtesy in their are few places where one will oftenerhave to say thank miles to the south-ward is Mackinaw City, onthe site of old Fort Mi
. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . r of the town, fifty feet above the level ofthe great lake in front. St. Ignace was the burial place of Marquette, who founded the missionof St. Ignatius here in 1670. The original name of the Point in the Iroquoistongue was Nau-do-wa-qua-au-me, or Iroquois Womans Point. The peopleare intelligent and hospitable, and gladly render visitorsevery assistance and courtesy in their are few places where one will oftenerhave to say thank miles to the south-ward is Mackinaw City, onthe site of old Fort Michil-limackinac, the scene ofthe great massacre in 1763. Its name in the Ojibway tongue was Pe-quod-e-nonge, _and it was a stopping place for French explorers andJesuit missionaries as far back as 1640. A mission wasestablished here by Marquette in 1671, eight yearsbefore LaSalles discovery of the Mississippi. Grahams Shoals, a favorite fishing-ground, where the hugelake trout jump clear out of the water at a trolling-spoon, are ashort distance west. ™^^= ^°*^ ^^^ ^^^^.
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