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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that comes to it blows over the water and parts with its surplus heat.The air is dry and bracing ; the middle of the day warm for two or three hours ; thenights cool and invigorating. There is not a bad smell in the island ; not a mosquitonor any other kind of pestilent insect. I found all this out when I was stationedthere as medical officer a year before the civil war. I tried it last year on thestrengtji of my recollections of more thantwenty-five years ago, and, as the result ofmy experience, I am going there again this year. It is a long journey from herethere, but a good part of it can be accomplished on the lakes by boat, and any dis-comforts of travel are amply compensated for after the island is reached. In reply to a request for permission to quote the foregoing, Dr. Hammond alsosays : I have no hesitation in saying that it is the best summer resort of which I haveany knowledge for persons whose nervous systems are run down, or who desire tobe built up and strengthened. •
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