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LAKE SUPERIOR. 



one can only know them by making Marquette a visit. There seems 

 to be an influence in these vast tracts of forest, these unHmited 

 beds of mineral wealth, this grand expanse of inland sea, which in- 

 sensibly acts upon the minds of the dwellers there about and wid- 

 ens their perceptions of their duty toward their neighbors; at least, 

 whatever may be the cause, they never fail to show every friendly 

 attention to strangers, and to provide for them the most agreeable 

 forms of entertainment that the neighborhood affords. 



The great sport for visitors is to go out in a steamer to the white-fish 

 schools. There are many small steamers engaged in the business, 

 and they can be chartered for a day or longer by parties desirous 

 of participating in the amusement. Sometimes as many as a 

 dozen of these steamers will cruise in company, and, as a school of 

 the eager fish are sighted, the fleet will immediately bear down 

 upon them. There are certain well recognized rules which the 

 steamers observe with regard to each other, and, in consequence, 

 there are often times when a number of the fishermen are so busy 

 that they can hardly haul in their fish and bait their hooks fast 

 enough, while the others are obliged to look idly on and wait for the 

 exasperating fish to come to them; perhaps in the next school their 



LIGHT HOUSE POINT, NEAR MARQUETTE. 



