. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . ties, all around him is re-freshing. A feeling of security comes over him,and when, from the rocky battlements of FortMackinac, he looks down upon the suiroundingwastes, they seem a mount of defense against thehost of annoyances from which he had soughtrefuge—the historic associations, not less than thescenery of the island, being well fitted to maintainthe salutary mental excitement. * The island has its legends, and folk-lore, andtraditionary tales of romance and tragedy. Thereis not so much of this, however, as many suppose. * Treatise
. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . ties, all around him is re-freshing. A feeling of security comes over him,and when, from the rocky battlements of FortMackinac, he looks down upon the suiroundingwastes, they seem a mount of defense against thehost of annoyances from which he had soughtrefuge—the historic associations, not less than thescenery of the island, being well fitted to maintainthe salutary mental excitement. * The island has its legends, and folk-lore, andtraditionary tales of romance and tragedy. Thereis not so much of this, however, as many suppose. * Treatise on the Principal Diseases of North America. p. , too, shauld place her temple here; for it has one of thepurest, driest, cleane:5t and most healthful atmospheres.—Schoolcraft. SUGAR LOAF. 14^ It is small in area and its scope for scenes, andtales, and associations is limited. Reference hasalready been made to Arch Rock as the gateway ofentrance, in the Indian mind, for their Manitou ofthe lakes, when he visited the island, and to Sugar. SUGAR LOAF- Loaf as his fancied wigwam, and to other rockformations which towered above the ground andwere personified into watching giants. The DevilsKitchen, on the southwest beach, has also beenmentioned, but as divested of all mystery and as- 144 MACKINAC. sociatioii with the dim and early past. ChimneyRock and Fairy Arch are but appropriate namesfor interesting natural objects. The lofty, juttingclitf known as Pontiacs Look-out, is undoubtedlyan admirable look-out spot, and is often so usednow, as it probably often was in the days of Indianstrifes when canoes of war j^arties went to and froover the waters of the Straits. But we can notvouch for its ever having been Pontiacs although the influence of that chieftainwas felt in these remote parts, his home was nearDetroit: and while we read of his travelling to theEast and the South, and as having had part in thebattle of Braddocks defeat near Pittsburgh,
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