. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . thriving young citieslike Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, Saginaw, and Bay City, with from 20,000 to 25,000 inhabitantseach; through Lansing, the beautiful capital of Michigan, with its stately capitol and public buildings;through the wonderful fruit region, with its endless orchards of California pears, peaches, plums,and apples, and its vineyards of luscious grapes; through the great salt-making region, with its vastboilers and evaporators, and its mountains of barrels; and, for hundreds of miles, through the gran
. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . thriving young citieslike Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, Saginaw, and Bay City, with from 20,000 to 25,000 inhabitantseach; through Lansing, the beautiful capital of Michigan, with its stately capitol and public buildings;through the wonderful fruit region, with its endless orchards of California pears, peaches, plums,and apples, and its vineyards of luscious grapes; through the great salt-making region, with its vastboilers and evaporators, and its mountains of barrels; and, for hundreds of miles, through the grandestforests in the world, the lumber region, with its huge mills and its aromatic odors of spruce and pine,carrying health to weak lungs, catarrhal nostrils and feeble throats. Here Otsego Lake is passed, with its huge saw-mills, its airy summer cottages and hotels, and itsfine fishing and bathing. At Roscommon Station an arm of the Au Sable River is crossed; swift, clear,crooked, and its waters alive with grayling, hundreds of which may be caught in a day by any skilled. JACKSON DEPOT. MACKINAC ISLAND. angler; while the vast forests along the banks abound with deer, turkeys, and other game, including anoccasional black bear. Five miles from Roscommon, by a beautiful drive through the pine woods, isHiggins Lake, ten miles long and four wide, surrounded by romantic scenery. The lake has no inlet,and the water in the center has been sounded nine hundred feet without finding bottom. The water isso clear that a nickel can be seen on the bottom at a depth of forty feet, and it has the peculiarity ofalways showing at least four distinct colors on the surface, dark purple, blue, and two shades of picturesque points, around the shores are groups of summer hotels and cottages, pagodas, boat andbath houses, and all the evidences of fashionable resort. The water swarms with bass, pickerel, land-locked salmon, native whitefish, and the finest perch that are found in this country.
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