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LAKE SUPERIOR. 



Marquette — left their undying foot-prints upon this most beautiful 

 shore, in tradition if nothing more; and the Fur Company is still to 

 be remembered in their old log warehouse, now tottering on its 

 feeble foundation, almost ready to fall. 



' ' Among the inhabitants of La Pointe there are several that are 

 very old, and have lived there a half century or more. They have 

 seen La Pointe in its glory, and still live to mourn its decay; — its 

 last decay, for it can never rise and fall again. The new La Pointe 

 will have no resemblance to the past. It will be a city of villas, a 

 fashionable summer resort. It will be sought for its health-giving 

 climate, and for the remembrance of the past, the shadows of which 

 are now passing just beyond our reach. What poetry! what love- 

 liness! the very quietude seems full of music! aland of rest, a fit 

 place for those who dream. 



"Once out among the islands in a fairy-like sail-boat, the sen- 

 sation is perfectly delightful. The white-winged vessel does not 

 seem afloat upon a watery element, but suspended in mid-air with 

 ethereal depths around and below. Those who have visited both 

 Lake George, the world-famed Horicon, and Lake Superior, affirnr- 

 that the latter far surpasses the former in clearness and transpar- 

 ency. Echoes from every rock seem to start when the silence of 

 the solitude is in the least disturbed, and become musical as the 

 voice is raised and lowered. Whether sailing among the islands 

 amid their primitive grandeur and intense quietude, or paddling 

 along the main land, all is glorious— a summer's dream. 



