. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . the settlers on reasonable terms. AtManistique The Ossawinamakee, is an elegantly furnished hotel, first-class in every particular. The natural scenery is grand, and touristswill find the place well worth a visit. Five miles west, at Indian Lake,there is fine bass fishing and hunting, also good camping steamers leave here for Escanaba and Green Bay. From Mackinac Island the steamer Aigomah makes frequent tripsto historic MackinawCity, seven miles distant. A few years after theJesuits burned their college and
. A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac; historical and descriptive . the settlers on reasonable terms. AtManistique The Ossawinamakee, is an elegantly furnished hotel, first-class in every particular. The natural scenery is grand, and touristswill find the place well worth a visit. Five miles west, at Indian Lake,there is fine bass fishing and hunting, also good camping steamers leave here for Escanaba and Green Bay. From Mackinac Island the steamer Aigomah makes frequent tripsto historic MackinawCity, seven miles distant. A few years after theJesuits burned their college and chapel in 1706 at St. Ignace, the post onthe straits was re-established and time at MackinacCity, or Old Mackinac, as it is called in history. Little is known of theannals of this place from 1721, when it was visited by Father Charlevoix,the historian of New France, down to 1760, when, as a result of thebloody war, which terminated in Wolfes victory at Quebec, the wholenorthwest passed out of French control into the hands of the English. 102. A Lake Tour to Picturesque Mackinac The Indians were the close friends and allies of the French, and theydetermined to oppose the English in taking possession of the the tribes of the lake regions, under the leadership of Pontiacbanded together to exterminate the English at one blow. This mur-derous conspiracy resulted in the total destruction of nine out of thetwelve posts on the lakes. Old Mackinac being among the number. For greater protection against these treacherous savages, the fortwas removed to the Island, and Old Mackinac dropped out of sightuntil a few years ago, when Edgar Conkim, who at that time controlledsome thirty-five thousand acres of land, which extended for twenty-fivemiles along the coast, surveyed a city site. At Mackinac City, tourists can take the trains of the Grand Rapidsand Indiana Railroad for Petoskey, Harbor Springs and the TraverseBay Region. These points are also reached by
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