T'he Days of a Man [1909 



Lake islands." Arrived at CoUingwood at the head of 

 Huron Georgian Bay on our way to Grand Manitouhn and 

 Sault Sainte Marie, we proceeded to put my early 

 learning to a test. On a big launch we threaded our 

 way among myriads of shorewise islands, a medley of 

 bare glaciated granite knobs flooded neck deep in 

 water, and seemingly endless in number. 

 Sault The Sault is a steep staircase down which plunges 



Ste. Marie ^^ overflow from Superior into St. Mary's River at 

 the head of Huron. There two ship canals have been 

 built, one on either side of the Sault; through them, 

 by an elaborate series of locks, vessels are let up or 

 down. Just before one of our visits, a passenger 

 steamer, striking too hard against the upper Canadian 

 lock, had burst through and dropped almost instantly 

 to the foot, without however injuring any one. But 

 the whole urge of Superior was then crowding on the 

 break, and its repair presented a difficult engineering 

 problem. 

 hake At the picturesque island of Mackinac and beyond 



y.u-perior j^ ^^ Escanaba on Lake Michigan we gathered much 

 valuable information, as also at Marquette, Duluth, 

 and Port Arthur on Superior. At Duluth, the proud 

 "Zenith City of the Unsalted Sea," I was the guest 

 of Bert Fesler, then district attorney, and at the 

 Country Club we feasted on siscowet,^ the rare and 



■■ The siscowet — Cristivomer siscowet — found only in the depths of Lake 

 Superior, seems to differ from the Great Lakes trout — Cristivomer namaycush 

 — only in excessive fatness. It feeds on the equally fat deep-water ciscoes or 

 "long jaws" — Cisco zenithicus and Cisco cyanopterus — fishes closely allied 

 to the different species of Leucichthys or lake herring found in shallow waters. 

 Some of the species exist in the depths of each of the Great Lakes (Erie excepted, 

 having no depths) and in the lakes of New York. They seem to be relics of a 

 primitive fauna which existed before the advent of the several species of lake 

 herring, which may have come in from Siberia. All these forms are allied to the 

 whitefish, having nothing but superficial resemblances to the true herring of 

 the sea. 



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