300 (.KAYLIXG. NORTHKliN Ml< MM. AX. 



The 'outlines grew sharper, the rocks towered higher, as 

 we approached. \\'- swim-' into tin- harbor, neared the 

 dock, and in a moment more stepped on shore amon^ tlie 

 haekmen, the loiterer* and the summer visitors who had 

 come down from the hotels. Wending our way to the 

 John .Jaeoh Astor House, we found our friends of the Jor- 

 dan, who had kindly ^athei'ed up our mail at various 

 points and irave it to us here. 



\Ve learned that in two hour* the ^ood steamer, the 

 M. trim <'</>/. was due from the Sault de St. Marie (" the 

 Soo " ) whither it had irone with a Detroit excursion party. 

 \\"c roolved to "keep moving" toward home by every 

 opportunity, and to take this steamer thai evening for 

 Detroit. The interval between our arrival and that of the 

 ^learner we employed ill rambling about the quaint, peaee 

 i'ul, dreamy town, strollini;- alon.u' the shores, and clamber 

 in.u' amonu- the rocks by the water's edp 1 to Arch UocU -a 

 " natural bridge " which has been described and pictured 

 BO of tfcn, that I only stop to say it did not " meet expecta 

 tions." 



\\'e had lime to catch the >pirit of this ^traime old town 

 of the North, sitting a qitccn where the HecU of the inland 

 seas tloat ea-t and west through the narrow way at her 

 feet, aud i>ause to pay homage. It secim.'d the Cattle of 

 Indolence of the cold North where the Vikings nii^hi rot 

 in peace and content after wars and bloodshed, rather, the 

 summer home of tin-old Thunder-CJod. Tlior himself, where 

 the wild winds would murmur him to sleep. Better. 

 it is indeed the resting place of the weary men of (lie South. 



