. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . eThousand Islands of the St. Lawrence. Within adozen miles north they are counted by hundreds. Indian tribes still roam over the vast territoryfrom Lake S
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . eThousand Islands of the St. Lawrence. Within adozen miles north they are counted by hundreds. Indian tribes still roam over the vast territoryfrom Lake Superior to Hudsons Bay on the mountainous peaks they regard with especialveneration and awe, associating with them fabulouslegends. They believed the thunder-clouds weregigantic birds, whose nests were on the highesthills, and whose cries were heard afar oft. Thehead they assumed resembled an eagles, having onone side a wing and a paw, and on the other an armand one foot. The lightning was supposed to issuefrom the beak through the paw, by which it waslaunched forth in fiery darts over the this superstition the locality became investedwith the name Thunder. Bounding Thunder Bay on the south is PieIsland. The Indians name it after the is eight miles long by five miles wide, and in oneplace rises to analtitude of eighthundred and fiftyfeet. The highestpoint is basaltic,resembling theHudson river pali-. Oak Grove House, Cedar Westward,along the shore,the prospect isever is the samerugged, mountain-ous shore, cover-ed with spruce,pine, birch, . bal-sam, and cedartrees. About onehundred and twen-ty miles northeastfrom Duluth, theLake, 91. boundary line is defined by a small trout stream, called Pigeonriver, which empties into a beautiful bay of thesame name. Our very obliging captain, AlbertStewart, ran into the bay to the mouth of the river—five miles from the lake—simply to enable us toview the grand scenery and the i
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