The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-08

d gossamers, blossoms and shells. She i
Il In her stern moods. She has piled III
d Ossa on Pelion. Her music is the thun
J der. Her attire is the somb:e green O.
c the pine. Her play is the everlasting
q wash OF the waves against solid granite
g walls. About nightfa!l, we had reached
: Pigeon River, the boundary line between
: the United States and Canada, and came
to anchor in its still waters, shut in by
7 browning mountains of rock towering
above US on either hand. There was time
} Tor us to land in small boats before dark.
and walk up to the Pigeon River Falls, a
, sight which amply repaid us for our
scramble up hill and over dale. Mime
haha must yield the palm of beauty--or,
at least, of grandeur, to these. They
make descent Of about one hundred and
nifty feet, in two distinct streams, over a
table OF trap with projecting spurs, which
break up and divide the fall il the wild
est manner. Standing upon the rocks
which overhang the fall, you look down
through rocky gorge, its ere vices BURST
ing into beauty with vines and flowers,
gllstening in the spray, to bend in the
river, which is spanned from side to side
with clear, well-detined rainbow. The
river is not very wide at this point,
scarcely wider than the brook which feeds
Mlnnehaha; but its sudden and headlong
plunge, the immensely of its rocky sur
rouhdings, and their fantastic shapes and
forms, especially OF one huge, towering
rock, which stands upon fhs. Very edge Of
the fall and divides the water before it
goes over, the beauty Of NE moses, and
ferns, and vines, and the utter solitude of
nature around it, give to it not only beau.
ty but an element of solemnity and sub
Unity Minnehaha does not possess. It
was something to me to be among the
tlrst to visit this beautiful spot before
1t becomes impressed into fashionable
service, for to this end it must come at
last The next morning at daybreak we
/ were off for Thunder Bay, rightly enough
named withal, skirring among towering
islands of rock rising hundreds of feet
out OF the lake. 1t was fair when we
started, but we had hardly been under
way half an hour when, as if by magic
| the heavens clouded over We were near
the entrance to the bay which runs be-
! tween two headlands of solid rock. Pie
Island, rising 1850 feet, and Thunder
Cape, 1900 feet, massive, threatening
walls of granite, standing there in an aw,
full silence, with nothing around them but
smaller islands of naked rock, except in
one instance, where perfect little gem
of an island, hardly fifty feet square, rose
from the water, covered with grass and
shrubs, with solitary pine in the cen.
tire, which. like Heine's. seemed to be
dreaming of the palm, which lonely and
silent sorrows mid burning rock and
sands" In the midst of this sublime
scene, these terrible rock shapes around
us which looked like rocky monsters just
risen from submarine cayerns, this tie rrible
solitude and silence which seemed like
the silence of another world, the clio uds
closed blackly around the steamer as If
they would crush it. 1t seemed as if you
could raise your hand and touch their
dark, feecy whirls The storm burst
forth in awful fury. For half an
hour the air was apparently all ablaze,
not with flashes, but absolute sheets OF
lightning, which lit up the rocks and
cliffs with a superb rose color, while the
thunder crashed from crag to crag like
the roar of thousand batteries. Nearer
and nearer we came to the frowning mon
sters guarding the entrance to the bay,
showing their lofty walls in the glare Of
the lightning. The Captain stood
anxiously, on the forward deck. with ii
silent group around him, peering ahead
through the darkness. The sea was now
running heavily, and the brave steamer
! plunged wildly about. AS we came
abreast of the entrance. sheet of light
ming more vivid than the rest lit up the
/ bay and showed dense bank of fog In
side. To enter would be folly the Cap
tain gave the signal to the pilot to about
ship, and III few minutes the steamer
was heading for the south shore pelted
with rain, girt about with lightning, and
running at full speed to outstrip the fog
which was chasing us at headlong force
across the mad waves of Superior. 1t
overlook us however, like magic, and
shut us in we fanked it, in turn, by
running into harbor in Isle Royale, be
ing the first steamer which ever entered
those waters, and before night we we're in
sight of the south shore again, and dane
j ing over the waves which were ruddy
with sunlight The Indians had leg
end that the thunder was huge bird,
which laid its eggs and Matched the light
nings about Thunder Bay. / myself am
firmly convinced that somewhere in those
terrible rocky solitudes the original thun
der is manufactured, and that people else.
where get it only in Il diluted form Was
it the total depravity Of human nature
which induced a garrulous woman to
emerge from the state-room that fearful
morning, to come out on deck with
chignon all awry, and in the midst Of this
grand exhibition of nature to stalk up to
the Captain, standing there in those
anxious moments and in nasal tone of
voice. inquire: Well, Captain, what