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surface of the lake ; but there is deep water close in- 

 shore. Fish abound here, as in every other part of the 

 lake, notwithstanding the enormous numbers that are 

 caught ; and many wrecks, and a lamentable loss of life, 

 annually occur at this point during the fishing season. 



A great number of the cliffs show the outline of the 

 human form, both male and female. Those which struck 

 me as being most happily named, were. The Trapper, 

 The Voyageur, The Rifleman (a remarkable presentment 

 of a hunter taking aim). The Belle, The Sleeping Beauty, 

 and The Empress. All these well represented the figures 

 they were named after ; the females especially were charm- 

 ing presentments of beauty. The Empress has a coronet 

 formed of trees ; but, in each case, a near approach 

 dispels the illusions their forms occasion at a distance. 



The Picture Rocks were the most eastwardly part of 

 the south coast that I visited. There are but few islands 

 above the size of rocks lying off the Pictures ; the biggest 

 of them being miscalled Great Island. There are a dozen 

 islands in the lake that exceed it in size, one or two of 

 them having twenty times its area. Seventy or eighty 

 per cent, of the names of places on the lake are French, 

 having been bestowed by the voyageurs, who were the 

 first white men to navigate its waters. In the winter all 

 navigation has to cease, at least by sailing craft and boats, 

 on account of the quantity of floating ice, as well as the 

 impossibility of approaching the shore, in most places, on 

 account of the frozen field. Returning to Marquette, I 

 continued my exploration westward during the winter, 

 with some intervals when the weather was too severe to 

 permit travelling. 



Marquette harbour is a picturesque spot, but not 

 more so than Munesing, and both are, no doubt, destined 

 to be greatly disfigured by the useful, but beauty mur- 

 dering, works of man. At the first-named place these 

 have already made sad havoc with the natural scenery. 

 Most persons can realise what " mining-works " mean to 



