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Michigan Pictured Rocks
with a flat tubular mass in front, rising to a convenient height for a desk, while on the right is an isolated block, which not inaply represents an altar; so that if the whole had been adapted expressly for a place of worship, and fashioned by the hand of man,' it could hardly have been arranged more appropriately. It is hardly possible to describe the singular and unique effect of this extraordinary structure; it is truly a temple of nature—'a. house not made with hands
"On the west side, and in close proximity, Chapel River enters the lake precipitating itself over a rocky ledge ten or fifteen feet in height. (At this fall, according to immemorial usage among the voyagers in ascending the lake, the manpeurs de lard, who make their first trip, receive baptism; which consists in giving them a severe ducking—a ceremony somewhat similar to that practiced on greenhorns when crossing the line.),
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