Excerpt from Old Mackinaw: Or, the Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings Lake Superior - Scenery - Transparency of its waters - Climate - Isle Royale - Apostles' Islands - La Point - Thunder Cape - Cariboo Point - A won derful lake - Romantic scenery - Pictured rocks - Rock Castle - The Grand Portal - The chapel - Fluctuations in the waters of Lake Superior - Curi ous phenomenawretrocession of the waters - Mirage - Iron mountains and mines - Description of Products - Shipments Copper - Immense boulders - Produce of the mines for 1857 - Shipment of copper from the Lake for 1858 - Centre of the mining country - Iron mountains - Copper mines of Great Britain - Coal - Mackinaw a great manufacturing point Key to the Upper Lakes - Commerce of lakes - Growth of cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

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