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 OCTOBER, 1884.

ALONG THE PICTURED ROCKS.

T is nearly two hundred and fifty years since the white man first set foot on the Upper Michigan peninsula, and a little over two hundred since he made a settlement there. The first comers were missionaries and fur-traders, and it did not take them long to map the coast-lines of the region; but, outside of the two or three places along shore where missionary stations were established, no settlements were made until comparatively recent times. The interior was an unknown region to all save the hunter and trapper until within a very few years. During the last days of 1882 the Detroit, Mackinac, and