. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . 37 their occupancy of the Is-land after its capture in1812, and was called bythem Fort George. Whenthe Americans regained pos- ^-Ssession of the much-contest- ~-ed spot, they named it Fort_ Holmes in honor of the g dlantothcer who fell m in attempt to le-take the Island in 1S14. Fiom thi,historic spot the eye takes in one of the granclest pinorama-,on earth, a sweep of a hundred and fifty miles of magnifi-cent lakes, white-crested billows, greenislands, beetling crags, gently sloping shoresof dazzling sand, light-hous
. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . 37 their occupancy of the Is-land after its capture in1812, and was called bythem Fort George. Whenthe Americans regained pos- ^-Ssession of the much-contest- ~-ed spot, they named it Fort_ Holmes in honor of the g dlantothcer who fell m in attempt to le-take the Island in 1S14. Fiom thi,historic spot the eye takes in one of the granclest pinorama-,on earth, a sweep of a hundred and fifty miles of magnifi-cent lakes, white-crested billows, greenislands, beetling crags, gently sloping shoresof dazzling sand, light-houses, towns, Indianencampments and far-reaching forests melt-ing away in the dim distance into the undis-tinguishalile blue of sky and water. Faraway to the northward are plainly seen Bay, St. Martins Island, BurnsIsland, and the famous Chippewa village at K,|.
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