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Title: Mackinac Island. The wave-washed tourists' paradise of the unsalted seas
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Donan, P. (Patrick) Michigan central railroad. Passenger dept., pub
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Publisher: (St. Louis, Mo., Times printing house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uts planted by the Jesuit fathers two hundred years ago, and one of the grandest and most beautifulof all the wonders of the Island is reached. Arch Rock is one of the wildest, weirdest, sublimest freaksof natures handiwork in sculpture. The chisel-prints of untold ages of whirling waters are all over it.The first glimpse of its manifold grandeurs and beauties takes away the breath of any party of intelligenttourists, and there bursts forth a chorus of rapturous Oh mys—glorious—magnificent—beyond all conception—superb—awful-—-picturesque—and enchanting. Each reachesfor the biggest word in his or her vocabulary of astonishment and delight, and then feels that it is a pitifulfailure as an attempt to express the emotions that overwhelm one in the presence of such a scene, orrather of such scenes. It is indescribable in words, and undepictable by art. Imagine, if you can,projecting from the face of a cliff two hundred feet high, a gigantic bay-window of stone, supported by a
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THE BROOK TROUT. MACKINAC ISLAND. mighty arch a hundred and forty-nine feet high at its summit. The rim or wall of the bay-window isabout three feet wide, and it bulges out some twenty feet from the cliff, overhanging the blue-green waterof the lake a dizzy depth below. Foolish people often walk around on top of this narrow ledge or rim,but it takes a head warranted not to swim. The view from the summit of the arch takes in a glorioussweep of fifty miles. The scene by moonlight from a boat below the arch is one of the most enchantingin all the universe of God, The music of the band at the fort comes softly drifting, with the moonbeamsand the scent of flowers and pinewoods, across the mirror-like waters; and in the presence of these grandDeity-hewn vaults and arches and pillars, it is easy to realize why the simple-minded Indians chose thisIsland as the special dwelling-place of their gods and fairies. About a hundred feet below the great arch is Little Arch. Three-fourths of a mile al

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