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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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 were called into requisition, for noentertamment was thought completewithout them, and thus many anhour passed pleasantly away. Aftera few years by the action of theelements, a portion of the cliff, to-gether with the house, fell to thebase of the rock, which disastrousevent gave rise to thename. The brow of thiscliff is 127 feet high.
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