Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-04-13
ALAND OF HEALTHA AND PLEAS
URE.
THE Charming Region Traversed by the
Grand Rapids & IHlIana r. r.
The Fishing Line.


book issued by the Grand Rapids and
Indiana railroad, which is highly en-
pertaining, even if one is not inclined
to take a summer tour up in the land
Of lakes of fish, game and exhilirating
pleasure. The pamphlet before us
only serves to bring out and heighten
former impressions. 1t contains,
besides, many charming descriptions
which seem to fan the very brow of
southerner, many finely executed
cuts of lake and woodland scenery as
well as several maps, showing the va
rious connections of the line. The
many charming resorts are faithfully
described and reproduced. No man,
who loves the rod and gun and camp
life in summer time, can read these
pages without feeling an instructive
desire to visit the region up among
the lakes in Michigan so little known
to the outside world until it was pen
etrated by the march of railroads, en-
terprize, and a vigorous civilization
peculiar to the west.
A number of our Memphis people,
satiated with the overrun places of
resort in this country and in Europe,
have diverged from old beaten tracks
of pleasure seekers, and gone to the
interior and northern part of
the beautiful p%eninsular state
Of Michigan, which is Cot
ted with lakes and streams abound
ing in fish, whose hills are covered
With dense forests where the wild
game starts at the hunters step and
whose borders are the grandest lakes
Of the continent. The influx of tour
lists to these wild, beautiful regions
has caused innumerable places Of re-
sort to be established where every
comfort and luxury is offered in the
borders Of this sportsmans paradise,
aud often at the very edge of the will
deruess. The healthfulness of this re-
gion has been attested by thousands
wao have inhaled its bracing air and
partaken its stone, cold spring water.
It is considered a specific for hay fe-
YER, bronchial affections, malarial and
other diseases. Some one has said
that this country is paradisical to the
tourist, invalid and si~ght-seeker alike,
tor all find here conditions of air,
earth and sky favorable to their wants
and tastes.
An enthusiastic visitor weary with
travel in this and other lands writes
from Mackinac: "In all my wand'rings
round this world ofcare,' l havefound
no place wherein the climate, through
out the summer season, seems to ex-
ercise on the human constitution a
more beneficial influence than on this
island. In other parts of this country
and in Europe, the places of resort are
beautiful, indeed. but a certain op-
p%ressiveness there at times pervades
the air, that a person, even with the
best health in the world, feels a lassi-
tude creeping through his frame.
Here we seldom, if ever, experience
such a feeling from this cause, for
the western breeze, even in the hot
test days, passing over this island,
keeps the air cool, and, especially, if
proper exercise be taken by walking
or riding, one feels a bracing up, a
certain buoyancy Of spirits that is
truly astonishing. Ye inhabitants Of
warm ATTITUDES, who pant in cities for
a breath of cool air, fly to thi isle for
comfort. Ye invalid, this is the place
in which to renovate your shattered
constitution. The lovers of beautiful
scenery, or the curious in nature, and
the artist, whose magic pencil de-
lights to trace natures liueaments.
need not sigh for the sunny cline Of
Italy for subjects on which to feed
the taste aud imagination"
This is pre-eminently the lando the
sportsman, where the graphing, AID
the trout respond to the tempting
bait on the anglers hook.
Colonel George f. Akers, of Nash
vile, the eminent fish commissioner
of Tennessee, gives a friend, in the
following language, bis first expert
ence among the grayling. Il have
caught the gamest of all game fish,
the American grayling.' 1t is truly a
daisy, pretty as a girl of sixteen, but
harder to catch, and as superior to
the speckled trout as the trout to the
bass. Royal indeed, pure as the water
it lives in, quick as thought in action,
game to the last, the pride of the
angler, and a sweet morsel for the
hungry man when the offices of the
cook are done and it is placed before
you broiling hot"
We might enlarge upon the beau.
ties and attractions of this region. 1t
is a revelation to those who 90 there
for the first time, to which they de.
light to ecu and return. The tour.
lists guide, to which we are partly in.
debtcd for this hasty sketch, can be
obtained at the office of Mr.. ,Jomes