WITH COPIOUS EXTRACTS FROM Marquette, Hennepin, La Hontan, Alexander Henry, AND OTHERS. "Beauteous Isle! I sing of thee, Thy lake-bound shores I love to see, From Arch Rock's height and shelving steep Mackinac, my Mackinac. Thy northern shore trod British foe, That day saw gallant Holmes laid low, Now Freedom's flag above thee waves, By REV. J. A. VAN FLEET, M. A. PREFACE. N the preparation of this little volume, I have carefully exam works. E a more two volumes; Robertson's History of America; Bancroft's United States; Bell's Canada, two volumes; Albach's Annals of the West; Lahnman's Michigan; Sheldon's Early Michigan; Historical and Scientific Sketches of Michigan; Neill's Minnesota; Smith's Wisconsin, three volumes; Wynne's General History of the British Empire; Rogers's Concise Account of North America; Dillon's Early Settlement of the North-western Territory; Heriot's Canada; Parkman's Pontiac; Parkman's Discovery of the Great West; Schoolcraft's Works, complete; Documentary History of New York, complete; 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; Newcomb's Cyclopædia 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 Lakes and Southern Invalids; also, Diseases of the Mississippi Valley, by the same author. I am also greatly indebted to Messrs. Ambrose and William Davenport, for a detailed account of the War of 1812 in its connection with this island. These gentlemen were boys of from twelve to fifteen years of age at the time, and were eye-witnesses |