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eastward, within an easy day's sail, at Grand Island' 

 there is splendid fishing, magnificent scenery, and a 

 passable boarding-house. Here are the famous Pic- 

 tured Rocks, ornamented with the fantastic hues of 

 many-colored sandstone, and worn by waves and 

 storms into a thousand odd shapes and strange re- 

 semblances, hollowed out into caverns, washed away 

 into pinnacles and spires, at one place representing 

 a yacht under full sail, at another a turreted castle 

 of the olden time. 



About sixty miles beyond Marquctte are the 

 Dead, tne Yellow Dog, and Salmon Trout rivers, 

 which are apt to be encumbered with drift-wood 

 and underbrush, but which are filled with fish, and 

 from one of which a brook-trout of six and a half 

 pounds was taken. The photograph of this fish, or 

 another of about the same size, is preserved at the 

 Sault. 



At Bayfield, the further terminus of the steam- 

 boat route, named after the first American explorer 

 and surveyor of this region, is the best of fishing, 

 united with good hotel life. In the neighborhood 

 of this village two hundred and fifty pounds weight 

 of speckled trout have been killed in one day by 

 one good fisherman and one poor one ; fish of two 

 and three pounds are common, and in the sheltered 

 channels, between the Apostle Islands, the namaa- 

 goose are taken in unlimited quantities. The Brule 

 "River, and the many streams that empty into the 

 lake in the neighborhood, although often choked 

 with drift, are filled with fine trout. 



