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a navigable canal with Big Clam Lake, 
three miles distant—and is a very plea- 
sant place to dwell for a short season. 
The hotels are good, and the lakes af- 
ford fine fishing, while the lover of beau- 
ty in nature will find much to admire; 
the lakes are invested with a. peculiar 
loveliness, a weird strangeness by the 
monster pine trees which surround and 
fringe the waters. 
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pared to camp. ‘Teams can be hired to 
transport camping equipage to the river 
banks. The river is navigable, and 
boats must be used, for it is a wide, 
strong stream, with a current of about 
four miles an hour. Just above the rail- 
road bridge, a little stream runs into 
the river; and about five miles up the 
river there are two fine brooks, from 
the mouths of all of which thousands of 
INDIAN RIVER. 
After a run of twenty-two miles 
through the solid pine forest, which gives 
the thought of ‘‘ walls of trees,” Walton 
Junction is reached, the point where the 
Traverse City Division branches off to- 
ward Grand Traverse Bay. Three 
miles south of Walton the railroad cross- 
es the Manistee River, one of the great 
grayling streams of Michigan. Parties 
intending a long stay, must come pre- ! 
grayling are taken every season. The 
flats or sinks—so called from the spread 
of water over a wide expanse—are above 
the logging camps, and the water being 
clear, the fishing is good, par excellence. 
Twelve miles from Walton, on the Tra- 
verse City Branch, Mayfield is reached, 
in the immediate vicinity of which an- 
glers will find fine trout, bass, and perch 
fishing. The Boardman, one of the best 
