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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Drawn by A. H. Bumstead 

 A MAP OE EAKE SUPERIOR SHOWING NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN, EASTERN 

 MINNESOTA, AND WESTERN ONTARIO 



Among the points of interest mentioned in the narrative and indicated on the map are: 

 Marquette, Whitefish Lake, Grand Island and Pictured Rocks, St Ignace Island, and Stan- 

 nards Rock. 



sive shapes, resembling battlements and 

 tnrreted castles, separated by high, per- 

 pendicular cliffs of variegated colors. 



These cliffs contain caverns into which 

 the larger craft may enter. One group 

 on the southern shore is known as the 

 "Pictured Rocks," originally the most 

 famous of our natural phenomena, but 

 now somewhat overshadowed by the 

 magnitude and diversity of the Rocky 

 Mountain region though still without a 

 counterpart in coastal scenery (see pages 

 116, 117, 118, and 144). 



In topography and scenic beauty the 

 north shore resembles somewhat the 

 southern shores of Alaska, for it is ele- 

 vated, rock-bound, with many clear, tur- 

 bulent trout streams cutting through the 

 dark coniferous forests and plunging 

 down the steep water-shed into the crys- 

 talline waters below. 



WIED EIEE ON THE ISLANDS 



Here is also an archipelago of wooded 

 islands, some surmounted by rocky domes 

 of a thousand feet or more, the larger 

 containing moose, deer, caribou, and bear, 



between which and the main shore are 

 deep, tortuous channels and many safe 

 harbors, affording ideal cruising grounds 

 for the sportsman and tourist. 



The south shore resembles more the 

 northern Atlantic coast, with here and 

 there precipitous cliffs and rocky prom- 

 ontories, separated by long stretches of 

 sand beaches and deep bays, the islands 

 and harbors infrequent. 



PRIMEVAL FORESTS AND SUCCESSIVE 

 GROWTHS 



Circling the coast, the forests are much 

 the same, except that the rotund spruce 

 of Ontario is replaced on the Michigan 

 shore by towering hemlocks, the roots of 

 which turn the streams into a deep wine 

 color ; so that the speckled trout, in 

 darker hues of brown, red, and orange, 

 are in characteristic contrast with the 

 silver and pink of those in the lake. 



When travel by water was the princi- 

 pal means of seeing the lake country, it 

 was assumed that upper Michigan was a 

 vast pinery, for its shores and the interior 

 streams were fringed with green through- 



