THE WILD LIFE OF LAKE SUPERIOR 



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DOME-SHAPED LODGE OF THE OJIBWAYS 



The Indian to the right is Chief Kawbawgam, who with his family lived on Presque Isle, 

 now a suburban park of Marquette. He reached the unusual age of one hundred years, and 

 now a large boulder is his monument in the park. The standing figure at the left is Jack 

 La Pete, who acted as guide for four generations of the author's family. He died in his 

 ninety-eighth year. Such longevity was most unusual among these Indians. 



out the year, and visible in the open 

 months were the buoyant pines floating 

 down many streams to be rafted on the 

 lake for the eastern market. 



When the railways and the logging 

 roads reached the higher ground, extraor- 

 dinary forests of hardwood were dis- 

 covered, consisting of millions of acres of 

 sugar or hardwood maple in solid stands, 

 with an abundance of beech, yellow birch, 

 basswood, ash, and elm, resulting in the 

 development of many woodworking es- 

 tablishments and the largest wood char- 

 coal furnaces in the world (see page 122). 



The abundance of sugar maples at the 

 present time warrants a syrup production 

 exceeding Vermont and New Hampshire, 

 where generations of thrifty farmers 

 have tapped every scattered grove in con- 

 serving nature's sweetest offering. 



Nowhere, probably, on the continent is 

 the fall foliage more beautiful in bril- 

 liancy or contrasting colors. Much of 

 this gorgeous display is of recent origin, 

 for with the removal of the older forests, 

 the increase of rural clearings, and the 

 unending vistas of the interior driveways 

 came a second growth of low-branched, 

 symmetrical trees, one of which, the soft 

 maple, is spreading rapidly ; for, when 

 cut to the ground, from the stump springs 

 a spray of green saplings, in the autumn 

 turning to a fountain of pink and red, 

 many of the leaves splotched like a 

 painter's palette. 



Equally abundant is the yellow-leafed 

 poplar, fluttering in the slightest breeze, 

 while the bronzed beeches and the laven- 

 der of the wild cherry are interspersed 

 with the mountain ash, bending beneath 



