it; but we see the land loom sometimes on each side, from our steamer in the middle. At ten in the morning of the 29th we enter the Carp River. We had passed the Manitou Islands in the morning, on the left, and saw the Fox Island in the offing. Ran out of Carp River and left there at noon, steering N. by W. to Beaver or Mormon Island, with its fishing huts and Mormon homes, and leaving there at evening we reached Mackinaw at two a. m. on June 30.
Thoreau lodged at the "Mackinaw House," remaining there several days, and both botanizing and working up his botanical observations at earlier points on his journey. This then will be a convenient halting-place to take up the work which he did in reading and botanizing from his long halting-place at St. Anthony and St. Paul. Finding libraries there, though not very extensive ones, so early in Minnesota's history, he noted down facts and observations made by earlier explorers than himself.
According to Parker's History of Minnesota, there were but three white families in
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