Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Sugar-Loaf Rock—(East Side). MACKINAC. 287
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Sugar-Loaf Rock—(West Side). for the most part, unused, although portions of some of them are occupied as stores.The present McLeod House, an hotel on the north street, was originally erected as aboarding-house for the companys clerks, in 1809. These were Mackinacs palmy days;her two little streets were crowded with people, and her warehouses filled with merchan-dise. All the traffic of the company centred here, and its demands necessitated thepresence of men of energy and enterprise, some of the oldest and best business-men ofthe Eastern cities having served an apprenticeship in the little French village under thecliff. Here, also, were made the annual Indian payments, when the neighboring tribesassembled by thousands on the island to receive their stipend. The natural scenery of Mackinac is charming. The geologist finds mysteries in themasses of calcareous rock dipping at unexpected angles; the antiquarian feasts his eyes 288 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. on the Druidical circles of ancien

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