. Summer vacation tours . and hes at the easternentrance of the x^^^strait of the same name,and is celebrated far X^^^and wide as TheFairy Isle. In front of x^^^the famous oldfort, where once waved the flag ^.^^^^ of France,is now the State Park, tastefully^^^k. laid outin lawns and gardens. Mackinac (notethat the name of the island is alwaysspelled in the French way and is pronounced Mackinaugh ) is famous for its picturesque and the East and South by the through trains of theMackinaw Division of the Michigan Central. Les Cheneaux Islands (The Snows), about a hun-dred in number, lie clustered
. Summer vacation tours . and hes at the easternentrance of the x^^^strait of the same name,and is celebrated far X^^^and wide as TheFairy Isle. In front of x^^^the famous oldfort, where once waved the flag ^.^^^^ of France,is now the State Park, tastefully^^^k. laid outin lawns and gardens. Mackinac (notethat the name of the island is alwaysspelled in the French way and is pronounced Mackinaugh ) is famous for its picturesque and the East and South by the through trains of theMackinaw Division of the Michigan Central. Les Cheneaux Islands (The Snows), about a hun-dred in number, lie clustered together in LakeHuron some fourteen miles northeast of the season the stanch little steamer Islanderaffords daily communication. Bass, perch, mus-callonge, Mackinac trout, pickerel, and pike aboundin these waters. Pointe aux Pins, on Bois BlancIsland, to the southeast, is an old and popular resort. THE ANGLERS PARADISE Mr. Charles E. Brewster, Chief Deputy Fishand Game Warden, writes inThe American Field:. Trrt-hics of the Angle, An Sable Rreci beautiful scertery and is fre-ely conceded by trav-elers who have been everyvv^here to possess a charmpeculiarly its own. Its wonderful Arch Rock rankswith the Natural Bridge of Virginia, and the islandhas many surprises for the geologist and are unknown, and the highly ozonizedair induces an appetite that is almost hotels are first class and the accommodations,even in the height of the season, usually island is reached, as above described, fromChicago via the through trains of the MichiganCentral and the G. R. & I., or from Detroit and 73 If I were asked what, in my judgment, werethe finest trout streams in Michigan, I shouldanswer, without hesitation, the Au Sable through a country but little settled—fedby innumerable creeks of pure spring water—itssource near Otsego Lake, it flows southeast a dis-tance of 150 miles, emptying into Lake Huron atOscoda. * * * T
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