clean sand and the sandy lake bottom slopes gradually 
into deep water, affording ideal conditions for bathing 
and boating. 
The Bogardus Camp lies in the center of a circle of 
the famous summer resorts of northern Michgan. In 
clear view from the highest terrace of Bogardus Camp 
and a mile and a half to the south is Burt Lake, much 
larger than Douglas Lake and one of the chain of lakes 
and rivers which form the celebrated “Inland Route” from 
Petoskey on Lake Michigan to Cheboygan on Lake Hu- 
ron. Thousands of tourists traverse this route every 
summer and are charmed as the little steamer which car- 
ries them passes alternately through narrow, tortuous 
streams and broad stretches of open lake. Of the summer 
‘resorts on the Inland Route, Topinabee on Mullet Lake 
is best known and is in summer a station of the Michigan ~ 
Central Kailway 8 miles from Bogardus Camp; all mail 
for the station should be directed to this place. 
A drive of 12 miles from Bogardus Camp to the west 
over the state road brings one to the resort region of Pe- 
otskey, Bay View, Harbor Springs and Harbor Point on 
Little Traverse Bay, while some 20 miles west of Petos- 
key is Charlevoix on Lake Michigan. Seventeen miles 
north of Pellston on the Straits of Mackinac is Macki- 
naw City, from which a ferry runs seven miles to Macki- 
nac Island, in historical association and scenic beauty the 
gem of the Great Lakes region. 
The topography of the region immediately about the 
Bogardus Camp is such as to afford a variety of floral 
and faunal conditions. The region is characteristically 
sandy and the home of the ground pines, wintergreen 
and trailing arbutus, but there are areas of broad leaf 
trees and shrubs with their usual accompaniments in 
flora and fauna. Deer, and foxes occur in the neigh- 
borhood. Among forms of especial interest to Zoologists. 
may be mentioned Lota (the fresh water codfish), Nec- 
turus (the mud puppy), the bald eagle and the ant- 
lion. A half mile south of the camp is a remarkable 
gorge which ends abruptly against a bluff some seventy 
feet high. From the bottom of the bluff there issue 
numerous springs which yield more than a million gal- 
