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Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN FUR COMPANY. (From a recent photograph of the books kept by John Jacob Astor, nozv preserved inan iron chest at Mackinac Island ) club-houses ; and its throng of summer visitors and residents multiply itsshops and houses of entertainment. It is not surprising that the abundant romance of Mackinac story hasembellished and lent a charm to the writings of numerous authors whouse the pen for the public delight. Constance Woolson and MarionHarland have each given at least one volume to this fruitful theme, togetherwith various magazine papers and short sketches. Miss Woolson writes: The island has a strange sufficiency of its own ; all who have livedthere love it. The island has a weird beauty of its own ; it fascinates.Among its aromatic cedars, along the aisles of its odorous pine-trees, inthe gay company of its maples, there is companionship. On its boldnorthern cliffs, bathed in sunshine and swept by the pure breeze, there 30 THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC
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THE FAIRY ISLE OF MACKINAC 31 is exhilaration. The accompanying chart of the island furnishes a birds-eye view of its shape and surface, and the most notable points and objectsto which attention should be directed. The village deserves the visitorsfirst care and of all its features the most striking object seen from the ap-proaching ferry-boat, and from the village itself, which lines the crescentshore with its curious buildings, is the fine old fortress. It is built upon a boldand lofty precipice of whitish limestone, and both construction and positionare unique. Its lofty parapet affords delightful views. Of the variousways of reaching it, the easiest, perhaps, as Captain Kelton says in hisRamble through Fort Mackinac, is up the steps. It requires some breath,but the cost is compensated by the prospect and by the interesting featuresof the fortress—its block-houses, quarters, guard-house, hospital, sally-port, library, barracks, and well-kept walks. It is, taken altogether, andver

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