Michilimackinack

One would think that if the muses are ever routed from the bare hills of Olympus and the springs of Helicon, they would take shelter in the glens of Michilimackinack, where the Indian pukwees, or fairies, danced of old.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

The fluctuations in Lake Michigan and the Straits of Michilimackinack are capable of being accounted for on a separate theory, namely, the theory of lake winds.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

She spoke highly of Cincinnati, and some other places, and expressed an enthusiastic admiration for the natural beauties of Michilimackinack.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

Our express for Detroit, via Michilimackinack, set out at three o'clock this morning, carrying some few short of a hundred letters.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

D. D.ty, Esq., writes from D.troit that a D.strict Court has been established by Congress in the upper country -- that he has been appointed to the judgeship, and will hold a court at Michilimackinack, on the third Monday in July.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

Meantime I visited Michilimackinack to receive the agency from Col. Boyd; after which it was left temporarily in charge of a sub-agent and interpreter, with the supervision of the commanding officer of Fort Mackinack.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

A society which, like that of Michilimackinack, was based on such a state of affairs but a few years back, could hardly be regarded without strong solicitude, for my correspondent had been a witness, in the first revival under Mr. Ferry, in 1828, of which he was himself a subject, that there is a "POWER that breaketh the flinty heart in pieces, who also giveth freely and upbraideth not."

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

He organized the concern in shares, under an act of incorporation of the Legislature of New York, and began operations by establishing his central point of interior action at Michilimackinack.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

It is at this season that the traders, who have wintered in the interior, come out with their furs to the frontier posts of St. Mary's, Drummond Island, and Michilimackinack, to renew their stocks of goods.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

Our voyage up Lake Huron to Michilimackinack, and thence east to the entrance of the St.aits of St. Mary's, at Detour, was one of pleasant excitement.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851