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either fisherman or tourist. Of all of the gems 
of this wild country, you must not fail to see 
Teal Lake, as beautiful a body of water as eye 
ever looked upon. On the farther side of the 
Jake, and to the left may be seen a house. Its" 
history is not unromantic. Many years ago, 
an Kastern gentleman, with an only daughter 
about 20 years of age, settled at Chicago, The 
moist air from Michigan did not agree with the 
lady, and she daily faded. 
An Indian chief, 
Friendly Indians ‘‘ packed” the cargo of the 
vessel over almost pathless wilds, thirteen 
miles to where the ruins are yet seen, and in 
course of time the house was built, furnished 
and occupied by the invalid and her father. A 
happy year was passed; bloom again came to 
the wan cheek and fire came to the dimmed 
eye; but, alas, only to mock the hopes of the 
doting parent. With the coloring of the leaves 
the next ¥all, the father bore the body of his 
VIEW OF SEA CLIFF HOUSE AND SEAL ROCKS, OFF SAN FRANCISCO. 
Accessible by Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
at Fort Dearborn, told the father of the pure, 
dry air of the hills of the great northern lake, 
and drew no mean picture of the country about 
Negaunee and Teal Lake, and urged that the 
duughter should be taken there. Anxious to 
adopt any means that seemed to promise hope 
to the almost dying girl, the lumber for a 
house was prepared,.and with an ample sup- 
ply of handsome, costly furniture, was placed 
on a vessel chartered to run as near Teal Lake 
as possible. In due time this vessel reached 
the port where Marquette has since been built. 
dead chiid to his far-off Eastern home, and 
abandoned house, furniture and all. The In- 
dians, with superstitious dread, kept away 
from the piace, and everything remained ag 
the owner had left it until a few years ago, 
when the white man prospected the country, 
and settled here to rob the hills of their min- 
eral treasure. Having none of the scruples of 
the untaught savage, he did not respect the 
home of the dead girl, and soon stripped it of 
its contents, so that to-day the house alone is 
left. It stands there, a monument to the now 
