The Summer Resorts And Waters Of Northern Michigan PDF Download

Excerpt from Mackinac, the Wonderful Isle, Petoskey, Traverse City and Other Northern Michigan Summer Resorts Inac island, fanned by the breezes and laved by the waters of the three greatest lakes of America - Superior, Michigan and Huron has the most equable, exhilarating and delightful climate of any spot in the north temperate zone. The island, situated at the confluence of the great lakes med, is about nine miles in circumference. Containing a little less than three thousand acres. Of this area one hundred and three acres are used for a military reserva tion, somewhat more is private property, and the remain der the United States, with a proper appreciation of its many attractions, has reserved for a National Park. The Wonderful Island, surrounded by the blue-green waters which separate the two pen insulas composing the State of Michigan, has all the beauties and advan tages of an ideal summer resort. This has been known for centuries, for the aboriginal inhabitants of the Peninsular State, and indeed the entire West, regarded the island as the especial home of the Great Spirit. It was as near an approximation to heaven as the Indian had ever realized. So imagery and metaphor have been exhausted in the vain attempt to describe its glories. It has been named The Wonderful Isle, The Queen of Enchantment, The Tourists' Paradise, Gem of the Straits, The Fairy Isle - indeed, it has almost as many pet names as it has had visitors, and their number is legion. The island, at its highest point, rises some three hundred feet above the waters of the Straits of Mackinac, hence, to craft, passing through that Gateway of the West, it is one of the most conspicuous objects in the horizon for a long distance. Indeed, it may be properly termed Nature's Statue of Liberty, watching the wealth and products of the great North west as they pass on their way to the sea-coast, for our own people or for other nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.