The Path Along The Brow Of The Precipice And Among The Evergreens, By
Which This Rock Is Reached, Is Singularly Wild, But Another Which Leads To
It Along The Shore Is No Less Picturesque - Passing Under Impending Cliffs
And Overshadowing Cedars, And Between Huge Blocks And Pinnacles Of Rock.
I spoke in one of my former letters of the manifest fate of Mackinaw,
which is to be a watering-place.
I can not see how it is to escape this
destiny. People already begin to repair to it for health and refreshment
from the southern borders of Lake Michigan. Its climate during the summer
months is delightful; there is no air more pure and elastic, and the winds
of the south and southwest, which are so hot on the prairies, arrive here
tempered to a grateful coolness by the waters over which they have swept.
The nights are always, in the hottest season, agreeably cool, and the
health of the place is proverbial. The world has not many islands so
beautiful as Mackinaw, as you may judge from the description I have
already given of parts of it. The surface is singularly irregular, with
summits of rock and pleasant hollows, open glades of pasturage and shady
nooks. To some, the savage visitors, who occasionally set up their lodges
on its beach, as well as on that of the surrounding islands, and paddle
their canoes in its waters, will be an additional attraction. I can not
but think with a kind of regret on the time which, I suppose is near at
hand, when its wild and lonely woods will be intersected with highways,
and filled with cottages and boarding-houses.
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