. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . x^m. 1 :l !;; ^ •! ij •i ? ?I! ? 1 [ lliyii; A Lake Tour to Picturesque Mackinac. ST. iCNACE. 377 miles fromDetroit, with a population of 3,000,was founded in 1671, by FatherJames Marquette, and for morethan a quarter of a century, was thecenter of interest in what was thenthe wilderness of Michigan. Itcontained a Jesuit mission and col-lege, a garrison of two hundredsoldiers, with a fine fort of pickets,and about sixty houses, forming astreet in a straight line. Near byclustered Indian villages, inhabitedby six or seven thous
. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . x^m. 1 :l !;; ^ •! ij •i ? ?I! ? 1 [ lliyii; A Lake Tour to Picturesque Mackinac. ST. iCNACE. 377 miles fromDetroit, with a population of 3,000,was founded in 1671, by FatherJames Marquette, and for morethan a quarter of a century, was thecenter of interest in what was thenthe wilderness of Michigan. Itcontained a Jesuit mission and col-lege, a garrison of two hundredsoldiers, with a fine fort of pickets,and about sixty houses, forming astreet in a straight line. Near byclustered Indian villages, inhabitedby six or seven thousand of thesavages. At this early period the townbecame commercial metropolis, and continued to flourishuntil some dispute arose between Cadillac, the commander of the fort,and the Jesuits, when the former returned to France, where he receiveda commission to found Detroit, which he accomplished in 1701. Sub-sequently the town declined, and in 1706 the Jesuits became discour-aged, burned their college and chapel, and returned to Quebec. It was from St. Ignace that Father Marquette set out on the 17thday of May, 1673, in search of the
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