Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America: Embracing a Description of Lakes Erie, Huron ... by John Disturnell

Author:John Disturnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. Disturnell
Published: 1874-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Saut St6. Harie, Algoms District, Caiiailu, siiuuied on tlie oppunite eidu of t)ic rirer, is a Hcatten>il aettlenicnt, where In locatol an old post of the Hudeon Bay Company. Here is a Hleambonl landing, a public tioiue and 3 or 4 storee, courtliouse and jail, 3 churchen, and 600 or71)0 inhabitiuita. IndionaoftbeChip-pem tribe reaide in the Tieinity in eon-Bidentble numbers, they having the right to take fiah in the waters contiguous to th« Bapids. They also employ themselves in running the Rapids in their frail bark canoes, irhcD desired by leiu or atrangeta — this being one of the most exliilorating enjoyments for those fond of aijualic sports.

Th« Btreama flowing into the St. Mary's Bivcr and l<ake Snperior, on tlia Canada side, are fiivorlte reiorl« for anglers fond of punning the brook trout, which here token in liirge quantities during the ninuuer months.

The country in (he rear of this frontier settlement is uetlled for five or nix miles; but a few miles farther to the north com-mencea an endless wildemeai^ extending north to within the Arctic drcle, being sparsely inhabiti.'d by Chippewus and roving tribes of Indians.

The primitive appearance of the totrns on the American and Canadian banks of St, JIary's River, in connection with their surrounding^ are of the Dioxt tnieresting chuocter. The Ship CnriiU and locks are the only perceptible improvements made during tlie |>asl century, while the miietl character of the population on the South tihore, conuR^

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iiig of Americans, French, half-breediv and Indiana, in connecUon with llieir English neighbors uii the opposiiu Hide of the river, who are a more ariatocrntic class, remind one of something foreign to the general appearance of American rUlages. A «team ferry connects the two setllcmenti,

Notliing but the pn^ecled railroads to connect with Montreal and Toronto, on the Canada side, and tJie niilroaii to b« built from this point to Mackiwu and Marquette, on the American wde, will wake up these places from their " Rip Van Winkle" slumbera.

TiiouT FiSKiso RfBoETO,—In the vicinity of tlie Saut Sle. Marie are several Ktreams where sporumen resort for th« purpose uf taking speckled trout. The nearest points are the A^Mifion both sides or !iL Man's River, and the small vtreatus between the islands on the Canada aide; on the A merican side, Ctyilal Hapidt, two niilea below tlie Saut. On St Mary'a River are several prtgecting points, from one to five miles wlow the Bant, where anglers reaorL Qarden and Bcot Riivn, on the Canada side of tlie riv«r, l)elow the falls, are fine trout St" — .rth S

fifteen to aisty mile* frum the Saut, where Indians or holf-brceds willi their eonoes liave lo bi

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forty miles, *i the klter biiv > m^

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some thirty or forrv mile-., lU'' i(n M'jii-Ireai Kiver and the Aguawa River, botit (wlebrai^d trout strcaou^ wbuiv am uuuil Uwt hartfom.

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ttrt Brtdy, Michigan, is situated (hesoutht^m lunkof the SaittSti!. Marie, in 4^ 3IK north Intitude; altitude, 600 f«el above the oecna.

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