The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-16
FROM LAKE SUPERIOR.
EAGLE HARBoR, July Sd,
Correspondence of The True Northerner.


Correspondence of The True Northerner
Out on the lake-afioat on the great inland
spoken-the last hand shaken-the futter OF
the last handkerchief disappears from view as
the steamer ronnds the rocky point, and we are
off fer home. JOY fills the heart, as after an
absence of ten months from family aud friends
we take up the line OF march. And yet these
months have formed ties OF friendship as the
chords OF sympathy from heart to heart have
answered each to each the calls in our natures,
TIL there are streaks OF sadness mingled with
the joy, to think that perhaps we are never TO
meet again these many friends. But thus is
be- and swiftly, smoothly ghde o'er the waters
upon Lake Superor's finest steamer, g The City
of Cleveland OF which too much cannot be
said in her praise. more gentlemanly and
attentive set of officers and attendants could
not be desired
At five o'clock we glide out of the bay at
Eagle Harbor, and in fifty minutes are passing
the range lights at Copper Harbor, 16 miles
down the lake. At 6-45 we are rounding Ke-
weenaw point, leaving Manton Island, which
looms up hke an oasis in the desert to our left.
Objects OF beauty and scenery to please the
most fastidious can be taken in by the lovers
OF nature, as we pass the ever varying shore
along the mountain ranges. Night, the sable
goddess, throws her veil OF darkness over the
scenes and we retire to our couch, sleepy and
weary after day Of excitement, to again find
ourselves at half past three on the natal morn
ing OF a nations birth Of freedom, again stand
ing OH the steamers deck just as the receding
mlsts of darkness are lifting themselves from
the horizon, revealing Grand Island in the far
distance lifting up like the back of some huge
levathsn of the deep; its white sides OF sand
stone contrasting beautifully with the dense
foliage OF green at It's summit, as they gsten
in the early morning sun.
Still beyond appears another OF natures
freaks in Monument Rock" which is plainly
viewed as column like it rises 100 feet above the
lake, with pine tree standing nearly upon its
very summit. But the prime reason of our
early rising and cne of Lake Superior's greatest
wonders" The Pictured Rocks"-are still IN
advance. The CHIEF object OF attraction here,
as viewed from the steamer with glass, is
Arched Rock, or Grand Portal, and Sail Rock
which can be distinctly recognized as we pass.
The first is a bold promontory rising 200 feet
from the water, having an excavation worn By
the waves which for centuries have increasingly
washed its sides, extending nearly 200 feet
under the bluff that juts out over the waters of
the lake. The latter viewed from distance
resembles very strikingly the sails Of vessel
Much might be said in reference to the pic
lures" etc., but 1 forbear, and hasten on TO
"Whtefish Point" distance of 100 miles from
Marquette which we have made in hours and
35 minutes, and are now distant 4S miles from
the Sault. At this point we stand and conte
plate the vastness Of Lake Superior, stretching
as it does for nearly 500 miles to the west and
northwest around Keweenaw Point and aver
aging nearly 100 miles in width, with an esti-
mated area of 10000 square mles,-hundreds
of rivers emptying into 1t. While we stand
and contemplate, this stanza comes to mind:
Father OF lakes thy waters bend
Beyond the eagles utmost view,
When throned in heaven he sees thee send
Back to the sky ITS world OF blue
We are swiftly sailing, and here we are at
the Sault ste. Marie, with Its noted scenery,
and these lines drawn to the full limit Of
propriety.