. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . at an early age and afterwards becameLord Lieutenant of a French Colony in Newfound-land, visited our Mackinac neighborhood in a publication of his travels in North America hegives three letters from the Michilimakinac settle-ment of that day.* As accompanying his pictureon the adjoining page he thus writes: You canscarce believe what vast sholes of white fish arecatched about the middle of the channel, betweenthe continent and the isle of Missilimakinac. TheOutaouas\ and the Hurons could never subsisthere, without that fishery; f
. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . at an early age and afterwards becameLord Lieutenant of a French Colony in Newfound-land, visited our Mackinac neighborhood in a publication of his travels in North America hegives three letters from the Michilimakinac settle-ment of that day.* As accompanying his pictureon the adjoining page he thus writes: You canscarce believe what vast sholes of white fish arecatched about the middle of the channel, betweenthe continent and the isle of Missilimakinac. TheOutaouas\ and the Hurons could never subsisthere, without that fishery; for they are obliged totravel about twenty leagues in the woods beforethey can kill any harts or elks, and it would be aninfinite fatigue to carry their carcasses so far overland. This sort of white fish, in my opinion, is theonly one in all these lakes that can be called good; *The book was first published in French, 1705. Afterwards an en-larged edition appeared in English form, P M o o ^ fla 5 » • en O 13 -= ?1 ?S :io WS. LA hontans letter. 25 and indeed it goes oeyond all other sorts of riverfish. Above all, it has one singular property,namely, that all sorts of sauces spoil it, so that itis always eat either boiled or broiled, without anymanner of seasoning. In the channel I now speak of, the currentsare so strong that they sometimes suck in the nets,though they are two or three leagues off. In someseasons it so falls out that the currents run threedays eastward, two days to the west, one to thesouth, and four northward; sometimes more andsometimes less. The cause of this diversity ofcurrents could never be fathomed, for in a calmthey will run, in the space of one day, to all thepoints of the compass, i. e., sometimes in one way,sometimes another, without any limitation of time;so that the decision of the matter must be left tothe disciple of Copernicus. Here the savage catch trouts as big as onesthigh; with a sort of fishing-hook made in theform of an awl
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