Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island)

Sugar Loaf dutse ne mai tsayi 75-foot (23m) ko tarin a cikin Mackinac Island a Lake Huron . An halicce shi ta hanyar rushewa a lokacin bayan Tafkin Algonquin, Sugar Loaf shine mafi girman fasalin rushewar bayan dusar ƙanƙara a cikin Straits na Mackinac.

Babban dutse, wanda ya kunshi breccia mai tsayayya da dutse, an yanke shi daga Tsohon Tsibirin Mackinac ko Turtle's Back ta hanyar ruwan da ya narke na Tafkin Algonquin. Guguwar Polar da aka saki ta hanyar janyewar kankara ta haifar da karfi fiye da duk wani da ke akwai a yau a kan Great Lakes.

Dutse yana cikin iyakokin Mackinac Island State Park kusa da mahaɗar Crooked Tree Road da Sugar Loaf Road. Ana iya ganinsa daga Point Lookout, kusa da mafi girman tsibirin."NPS Focus". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved August 2, 2010.

 Magana 
Abu na farko da mutane na kowane bangare suka ji daɗi a kan iyakar Great Lakes shine sukari na maple, wanda aka ɗora a cikin kwando mai kama da kwano ko makakoon na birchbark. An sanya sunan Sugar Loaf Rock ne saboda kamanceceniya da ɗaya daga cikin waɗannan ƙwayoyin.

 Al'adu 
'Yan asalin ƙasar Amirka da mazauna kan iyaka sun ba da labarai iri-iri game da Sugar Loaf. Wasu sun ce gidan Gitchie Manitou ne. Sauran labaru sun ba da shawarar cewa dutsen shine nau'i na ƙarshe da wani mutum da ke fama da girman kai ya ɗauka wanda ya karya haramtacciyar doka kuma an hukunta shi ta hanyar yin amfani da shi a cikin siffar babban dutse. Bayanan da ke cikin dutse, wanda aka ɗora a gefen Sugar Loaf Rock, na fuskar namiji na iya ba da shawarar wannan labari. An ce bayanin martaba shine na ran da ya ɓace, wanda ba zai iya tserewa daga asalin da ya ɗauka a kan la'akari da ɗabi'arsa ba.

Sugar Loaf Rock ya bayyana an yi amfani da shi azaman wurin binnewa da binnewa. A cikin 1831, Alexis na Tocqueville da abokinsa Gustave de Beaumont sun ziyarci tsibirin Mackinac . De Beaumont ya ba da rahoton cewa dutsen ya cika da "ƙuƙwalwa da kuskuren inda Indiyawa wani lokacin suke ajiye ƙasusuwan matattu. " Duk wani irin wannan ajiya ya ɓace tun da daɗewa.

Wani kogo na halitta yana wucewa ta Sugar Loaf daga gefe zuwa gefe, karami ne don wucewa ta kowane yara masu kasada.

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