Early Mackinac A sketch, historical and descriptive . he days ofIndian strifes Avhen canoes of Avar parties Avent to andfro over the Avaters of the Straits. But Ave can notvouch for its ever having been Pontiacs Avatch-toAver. 1 Treatise on the Principal Diseases of North America, Hygeia. too. should place her temple here; for it has oneof the purest, driest, cleanest and most healthful atmospheres.—Schoolcraft. SUGAR LOAF 163 For although the intlnence of that chieftain was feltin these remote parts, his home was near Detroit;and while we read of his traveling to the East andthe South,
Early Mackinac A sketch, historical and descriptive . he days ofIndian strifes Avhen canoes of Avar parties Avent to andfro over the Avaters of the Straits. But Ave can notvouch for its ever having been Pontiacs Avatch-toAver. 1 Treatise on the Principal Diseases of North America, Hygeia. too. should place her temple here; for it has oneof the purest, driest, cleanest and most healthful atmospheres.—Schoolcraft. SUGAR LOAF 163 For although the intlnence of that chieftain was feltin these remote parts, his home was near Detroit;and while we read of his traveling to the East andthe South, and as having had part in the battle ofBraddocks defeat near Pittsburgh, we find nothingto show that he had ever been so far north as our is-land, or at leasthad ever sojournedthere. LoversLeap, rising ab-ruptly 145 feetabove the lake, istoo good a pinna-cle, and too suit-able for such sadlyromantic purpose,as far as precipi-tous height andfrightful rocks be-neath are con-cerned, n(jt to havesuggested the taleof the too faithful,heart-sore Indian. -MXEY ROCK. maiden. The story of Skull Cave has already beentold; and although a piece of history, as far as thename of Henry the trader figures in it, should bejustly regarded with as much interest as if it be-longed to myth and fable) ; But at the same time,with all the modifications whicli a sober realism maydemand, there is begotten in the mind of everyonewho breathes the soft and dreamy air, and surrendershimself to the Avitchery of the little island, an im- 164 EARLY MACKINAC pression of the weird, and the mystical, and the po-etic, however little defined and embodied it may impression is increased in the sense of charmimparted by the dim and shadowy past of a noblebut untutored race of natures children in connectionwith a spot of such rare attractiveness, and which, dis-similar in formation and character from all the other
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