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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:" Ye say they all have passed away,That noble race and brave That their light canoes have vanishedFrom off the crested wave; That 'mid the forest where they roamedThere rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters—Ye may not wash it out." Ye say their cone-like cabins,That clustered o'er the vale, Have fled away like withered leaves Before the autumn gale; But their memory liveth on your hills, Their baptism on your shore; Your everlasting rivers speakTheir dialect of yore/'chapter{Section 4PEEFACE.Mackinac, formerly Michilimackinac—looking backwards to about the time of "The Flood" and forward to the present time, has been carefully written, and the following works and official reports referred to: Mitchell's Geography, 1843; Taylor's Manual of History; Michigan Manual; London and Paris State Papers; United States State Papers, and Official Reports; Sketches of the Life of Gurdon S. Ilubbard; Letters and Documents of the American Fur Co.; my own personal copies of Official Letters and Reports, Fort Mackinac, Mich.; Memoir of Pere James Marquette, by John R. Bailey, M. D.; Verwyst—Missionary Labors of Marquette, Menard and Allouez;, Ancient and Modern Michilimackinac; History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan (Blackbird's); Van Fleet's Old and New Mackinac; Maps of Mackinac; Palmer's Historical Register, 1814; Shea's Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi; also, Shea's Catholic Missions; Hennepin; La Hontan, two volumes; Charlevoix, two volumes; Alexander Henry; Carver; Disturnell; New- comb's Cyclopaedia of Missions; American Missions to the Heathen; Geological Reports by Foster and Whitney, and by Professor Winchell; Thatcher's Indian Biography, two volumes; Strickland's Old Mackinaw; Drake's Northern La... ... Read more