Identifier: laketourtopictur00det (find matches)
Title: A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac via the D. & C
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Detroit and Cleveland steam navigation co. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Detroit, Mich., O.S. Gilley, Bornman & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the old blockhouses, pierced with port holes. Within the enclosure are theofficers quarters, guard-house, barracks, commissary and maga-zine, with the hospital building just outside. When built, thefort was enclosed by a palisade of cedar pickets, ten feet high, intended as a defenseagainst Indians. To make it impossible to scale this palisade, each picket wasprotected at the top by sharp iron prongs, and by hooks outside. Starting from this spot, following the foot-path along the brow of the bluffoverlooking the eastern part of the town, visitors will be delighied with the grandpanorama which meets the view. Nearly three-fourths of a mile from the fort, atthe southeastern angle of the island, is the overhanging cliff known as i^(o)yij^s®i?)is F© The legends connected with this cliff differ in the hands of different writers.One has it that Captain Robinson, a great admirer of ladies, while strollingin the woods suddenly beheld a few rods before him a beautiful girl, who retreated as
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fast as he approached, until finally she stood almost on the edge of the cliff, and inhis eagerness to capture, as well to save her from destruction should she lose heibalance, the captain sprang forward to seize her, but Just as he clutched her arm,she threw herself forward into the chasm, dragging her tormentor and would-be saviorwith her. His body alone was found. He was long mourned by his men andbrother officers; but by and by it began to be whispered that the captain hadindulged too freely in the fine old French brandy that the fur traders brought up fromMontreal, and the lady was a mere ignis fatuus of his excited imagination, but themantle of charity has been thrown over the tragedy, and a romantic explanationgiven in its place. Another writer says: After the removal of the fort to the island in 1780,Captain Robinson, who then commanded the post, had a summer house built upon the cliff, which soon became a fre-quent resort for himself and brotherofficers Pipes, cigars and wine

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