. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . ^ Indian, accent slightly foreign, a soft,l)laintive voice, her language pure and remarkablyelegant, refined, womanly and unaffectedly ONE OF THE DRIVES- She saw the island throughout, taking tramps overit and delicious drives, and writes of it as won-derfully beautiful—a perpetual succession of low,rich groves, alleys, green dingles and boskydales. After ner glowing description, she sumsTip by saying, It is a bijou of an island. A little MISS MARTINEAU. 159 bit of fairy ground, just such a thing as some ofour amateur travelers wo
. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . ^ Indian, accent slightly foreign, a soft,l)laintive voice, her language pure and remarkablyelegant, refined, womanly and unaffectedly ONE OF THE DRIVES- She saw the island throughout, taking tramps overit and delicious drives, and writes of it as won-derfully beautiful—a perpetual succession of low,rich groves, alleys, green dingles and boskydales. After ner glowing description, she sumsTip by saying, It is a bijou of an island. A little MISS MARTINEAU. 159 bit of fairy ground, just such a thing as some ofour amateur travelers would like to pocket andrun away with (if they could) and set down in themidst of their fish ponds; skull-cave, wigwams,Indians and all. Miss Martineau spent two years in this coun-try, traveling extensively through the States andwriting her impressions. She published twobooks as the outcome of this journeying, Societyin America, and afterwards, her Retrospect ofWestern Traveling. It was in July, 1836, thatshe visited Mackinac, and it is in the first named ofthese two books that she tells of it. She came byway of Lake Michigan, from Chicago, traveling ina slow-going sail-vessel, and approach
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