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Our Lake Scenery

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
July
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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The scenery and air of our Northwstsrn lakes are beautiful and magical ; and nrhy people should goabroad aiid breath the pestilential air of deoaying cities nd uatious, when they can breathe the inspiring air of home and seo this wonderf ui wealth of natural soonery, passes comprehension. , ■ Of all the lakes, Hurón presenta th grandeet watorscapes ; Superior, tha noblcst shorea and most beautiful islanda. In Superior the genuine broók tróttt it taken about the rocks on the shoreij where the water is ten feet deep ot more. This is made possiblè by the coldnesi of the water. lts temperatura nerer rise much above that of ioe-water in nny prt of the lake. Experienced angleïi háté' taken these trout weighing six or seyen pounds. They are caqght with baitonly, and will not" raise to a fly. ' This i's ths speckled brook trout. That lordly fish ia taken by trolling, and is often of th weight of 30 or 40 pounds. Ecitement can be had by runtíiñg tn rapids of the Sault Ste. Marie with Indians in a birch-bark canoe. It il brief and there is no danger in it. Ladies my try it with entire confldence. .. ., But one should see the grand scenery about Thunder Bay, on the British shor of Lake Superior. Thundr Cape, a pre-' cipitous cliif of red rook, 1,300 feet high and a mile and a half long, stands on tb eastern side of the entrance, while nümbers of islands, some lofty and flatroofed, others low and rounded, and all of them wooded, are scattered along eajtward. The outline of Thunder Cape is 8uuerb, though it is tempered and Wltíl lleco lliclb UltJtHV tuc iovciui va iv"(j summit. At evening its beauty is indscribable. The setting sun flooded the mountain and the islands with golden light such as Bierstadt and Gifford and George L. Brown love to paint, and th olouds and sljy overhead were such tbat none but Turner would attempt. Such a deluge of glory 1 The gray expanse of water and the purple-shadowed sides of hills and islands, darkening as the day faded into the sDlcnin twilight, wa tha setting of the picture.

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Old News
Michigan Argus