Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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eisland are chiefly natural, and it is safe to say they are unsurpassed bythose of any known area of similar extent upon this western continent.It is a grand museum of marvels, a magnificent gallery of pictures,wherein every normal and unvitiated taste is ministered to ; where landand lake, and, more broadly still, where earth and air and sky are tribu-tary to the health and happiness, and not less to the instruction and in-spiration, of the intelligent visitor. The breadth of the territory originally recognized as Michilimackinacforbids the writer to overlook some adjacent parts long and closely linkedwith the island, of which are St. Ignace upon the upper, and Mackinawcity upon the lower peninsula of Michigan. Upon the northernmost pointof the latter is situated the anteroom, so to speak, of the real Mackinac,separated from it, it is true, by the eight-mile width of the strait, butnevertheless its true portal. This is Mackinaw city of to-day, where ter- THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC 25
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THE FAMOUS LOVER S LEAP, OR PONTIAC S OUTLOOK. (From a recent photograph.) 26 THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC minate the two great railway lines, the Michigan Central, and the GrandRapids and Indiana, which are Mackinacs arteries of commerce, commu-nication, and courtesy with all the world else. It was not really at thispoint, but a mile or two westward of it and more projected into the straits,that Fort Michilimackinac stood, for years the most important post in theregion, and not till long after the famous conspiracy of Pontiac, in whichit was captured, did it surrender its boasted power and pride to the littleisland across the blue-green water. Perhaps no more remarkable example of the red mans treachery is tobe found in history than this tragical conspiracy. Pontiac was the mostastute and powerful Indian of his time. His influence over the tribes, nothis own only, was marvelous. An ally of the French, he had honor enoughto be true to them to the extent even of treacherous hate of the E

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