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county and lake Igoma, or " Superior," in Sullivan, were both 

 in former times, visited by the curious who would witness a 

 natural curiosity of the kind. We ourselves saw the latter 

 some years since ; at a season of the year indeed most 

 unpropitious for bearing personal testimony to the fact of its 

 solitary islet being buoyed up upon the waters, for the lake, 

 frozen over at the time, was covered with a deep snow, yet 

 we had the best circumstantial evidence that such a freak of 

 nature did exist or rather had existed within a very brief period. 



We had stopped at a saw-mill in company with the propri- 

 etor of a large timber tract, in the heart of which the lake is 

 situated, when our attention was drawn to the more interesting 

 feature of the locality, by the incidental remark of one of his 

 woodmen. 



" I don't think the island will give us any more trouble, sir," 

 said the man, " but last fall when it drifted into the outlet of 

 the lake here it choked the stream so that we had to stop the 

 saw-mill for a week." 



A little wooded peninsula, now rigidly imbeded in ice, being 

 pointed out to us as the once vagrant islet, naturally suggested 

 an enquiry as to its intermediate travels. 



" A storm druv it out into the lake," said the forester, " and 

 then we went to work to fix it, so thai it will hardly trouble us 



