. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . thirty to thirty-five pounds. A party of eight persons, in one day lastseason, caught over a ton of fish, of all kinds, with hook and line. Connoisseurs say there is a markeddifference in the flavor of the fish caught on the east and west sides of Mackinac Island, and those ofthe Channeaux are considered fit for any epicurean. Brook trout, weighing from three to three anda-half pounds, are frequently caught in the small streams emptying into the straits among theChanneaux. POINT ST. IGNACE. Six miles across the north
. Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas . thirty to thirty-five pounds. A party of eight persons, in one day lastseason, caught over a ton of fish, of all kinds, with hook and line. Connoisseurs say there is a markeddifference in the flavor of the fish caught on the east and west sides of Mackinac Island, and those ofthe Channeaux are considered fit for any epicurean. Brook trout, weighing from three to three anda-half pounds, are frequently caught in the small streams emptying into the straits among theChanneaux. POINT ST. IGNACE. Six miles across the north channel is Point St. Ignace, a flourishing town of about 2,000 inhabi-tants, surrounded by picturesque scenery, and rapidly becoming a popular summer resort. Just backof the town is the Rabbits Back, a strange range of rocky hills, presenting precisely the appearancethat suggested the name, with a gigantic perpendicular pillar of grayish-white stone, a hundred andthirty feet high, sticking up just enough to put the finishing tail to the picture. A beautiful little lake of. MACKINAC ISLAND. crystaly-clear water, teeming with fish, lies in the rear of the town, fifty feet above the level ofthe great lake in front. St. Ignace was the burial place of Marquette, who founded the missionof St. Ignatius here in 1670. The original name of the Point in the Iroquoistongue was Nau-do-wa-qua-au-me, or Iroquois Womans Point. The peopleare intelligent and hospitable, and gladly render visitorsevery assistance and courtesy in their are few places where one will oftenerhave to say thank miles to the south-ward is Mackinaw City, onthe site of old Fort Michil-limackinac, the scene ofthe great massacre in 1763. Its name in the Ojibway tongue was Pe-quod-e-nonge, _and it was a stopping place for French explorers andJesuit missionaries as far back as 1640. A mission wasestablished here by Marquette in 1671, eight yearsbefore LaSalles discovery of the Mississippi. Grahams Shoals
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