. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . of Harbor Springs, and the timewas when 4,000 warriors could be mustered from the regions about thisbay. At 22 years of age, Pe-to-se-ga took for a wife a maiden namedKeway-ka-ba-wi-kwa, raised a family of fourteen children, and becamea chief and proprietor of nearly all the land now covered by the villagesite. Missionaries persuaded him that Neyas was an abbreviation ofIgnatius, and thus he became Ignatius Pe-to-se-ga. The present villageof Petoskey is indebted to this old chieftain, who still resides withinher limits, for he
. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . of Harbor Springs, and the timewas when 4,000 warriors could be mustered from the regions about thisbay. At 22 years of age, Pe-to-se-ga took for a wife a maiden namedKeway-ka-ba-wi-kwa, raised a family of fourteen children, and becamea chief and proprietor of nearly all the land now covered by the villagesite. Missionaries persuaded him that Neyas was an abbreviation ofIgnatius, and thus he became Ignatius Pe-to-se-ga. The present villageof Petoskey is indebted to this old chieftain, who still resides withinher limits, for her name, corrupted. Russianizedor Yankeeized from themore musical and ances-tral original. She cer-tainly had no reason tobe ashamed of her pedi- gree, for the chief for |whom she was christen- jed has many sterlingtraits of character. The ,old gentleman may be found at his comfort- ,able home, a neat two Istory frame house on ,the bluff just beyond ,Bear River, on the out-skirts of the town. Hecannot be understoodhowever except throughan interpreter. V \^^ «\^;. Old Chief Petoskey. 105 A Lake Tour to Picturesque Mackinac Harbor Springs is on the north side of Little Traverse Bay, fourmiles from Petoskey and Bay View. The village is located on a beauti-ful harbor, formed by Harbor Point, projecting into the bay, and enclos-ing a surface of water a mile in length and half a mile in width. The In-dians call this small bay Wequetonsing. The shore is a pebbly beach,washed by waters of such crystal purity that fish and other objects areplainly visible upon the bottom, at a depth of thirty to fifty feet. Allalong the waters edge are large springs, from which gush streams ofwater as clear as air, and only twelve to fourteen degrees above freezingpoint, the health giving properties of which are truly marvelous. The land rises some ten or fifteen feet, the business portion of thetown being located on the level. Back of this rises an abrupt bluffseventy-five to one hundred feet. Fine bui
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