Bay Port on Wild Fowl Bay, Lake Huron 


























































































































































































North Island, Looklng Northeast from 
R. R. Dock. 
have followed the above described 
method of painting portraits of the 
fishes of American waters, and our 
friends will doubtless be glad to learn 
that of the eighty typical fishes selected 
for this purpose, we have now about 
sixty-five completed. ‘‘It is not all of 
fishing to fish.”’ 
bay Port is" seventy “miles: from 
Saginaw and within twenty miles of 
the terminus of the Saginaw, Tuscola 
and Port Huron Railroad. It isa vil- 
lage town, embowered in foliage, ex- 
cept where the two large stores of the 
fisheries companies have been built, 
and these establishments constitute the 
only commercial element of the place. 
Outside of their location it has all the 
typical beauty of woods and water. 
The hotel, erected, owned and con- 
ducted by the railroad company, is an 
imposing structure, with most excellent 
and modern appointments, and is sit- 
uated in the centre of a most beautiful 
grove, the foot of which is lapped by 
the waves of Huron. Here, in season, 
throng those who are in search of rest- 
ful days and exemption from the ills of 
hay fever and like complaints. Here 
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they find delightful atmospheric condi- 
tions, which seem to be beyond the 
prophesies of ‘‘Old Probabilities” to 
mar or mutilate. There is always re- 
freshment in the air of Bay Port, and 
the drinking water isa balm and gift 
which few watering places possess. In 
front of the hotel is a spring of pure 
natural water, which has only a per- 
centage of thirteen of solid matter to 
the gallon, and an Artesian well, 328 
feet deep, is near by it, whose waters, 
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At the Dock. 
Professor A. B. Presscott, are highly 
beneficial to all who suffer from sto- 
machic troubles. It always maintains 
a uniform temperature of 47° during 
summer and winter. 
We never visit a section, should we 
happen to be successful in our efforts 
to get life-like portraits of fishes, that 
we do not remember it with pleasure 
and gratitude. It always has a charm 
for us, but after our brief sojourn at 
Bay Port, the conclusion gathers force 
that we should not regret our stay even 
if the fish didn’t bite there and our can- 
vasses had remained in blank. 

