History of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Early History Of The UP
THE PICTURED ROCKS The Pictured Rock, of which almost fabulous accounts are given by travel ers, are about a hundred and ten miles west of Sault Ste. Marie. Here also are to be seen the Cascade Falls and the Arched Bock, both objects of great interest. The Amphitheatre, Miners’ Castle, Chapel, Grand Portal, and Sail [...]
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These are, first, the curious manner in which the cliffs have been excavated and worn away by the action of the lake, which for centuries has dashed an ocean-like surf against their base; and, second, the equally curious manner in which large portions of the surface have colored by bands of brilliant hues. It is [...]
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but it is not until having reached Miners’ ‘River that their striking peculiarities are observed. Here the coast makes an abrupt turn to the eastward, and, just at the point where the rocks break off and the friendly sand beach begins, is seen one of the grandest works of nature in her rock-built architecture. We [...]
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The cliffs do not form straight lines, but rather arcs of circles, the space between the projecting points having been worn out in symmetrical curves, some of which are of large dimensions. To one of the grandest and most regularly formed we have gave the name of The Amphitheatre.’ Looking to the west, another projecting. [...]
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They are not scattered indiscriminately over the surface of the rock, but are arranged in vertical and parallel bands, extending to the water’s edge. The mode of their production is undoubtedly as follows: Between the bands or strata of thick-bedded sandstone there are thin seams of shaly materials, which are more or less charged with [...]
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It is a curious fact, that the colors are so firmly attached to the surface that they are very little affected by rains or the dashing of the surf, since they were, in numerous instances, observed extending in all their freshness to the very water’s edge. “Proceeding to the eastward of the Amphitheatre, we find [...]
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The main body of the structure consists of a vast mass of a rectilinear shape, projecting out into the lake about six hundred feet, and presenting a front of three hundred or four hundred feet, and rising to a height of about two hundred feet. An entrance has been excavated from one side to the [...]
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The Chapel—La Chapelle of the voyageurs if not the grandest, is among . the most grotesque, of Nature’s architecture here displayed. Unlike the Excavations before described, which occur at the waters edge, this has been made in the rock at a height of thirty or forty feet above the lake. The interior consists of a [...]
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