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Michigan Pictured Rocks
The pictured rocks may be described, in general terms, as a series of sandstone bluffs extending along the shore of Lake Superior for about five miles and rising, in most places, vertically from the water, without any beach at the base, to a height varying from fifty to nearly two hundred feet. Were -they simply a line of cliffs, they might not , so far as relates to height or extent, be worthy of a rank among great natural curiosities, although such an assemblage of rocky strata, washed by the waves of the Great Lakes, would not, under any circumstances, be destitute of grandeur. To the voyager coasting along their base in his frail canoe they would, at all times, be an object of dread; the recoil of the surf, the rockbound coast, affording for miles no place of refuge; the lowering sky, the rising wind,—ail these would excite his apprehension, and induce him to ply a vigorous oar until the dreaded wall was passed. But in the Pictured Bocks there are two features which communicate to the scenery a wonderful and almost unique character.
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