His written description of Mackinac Island and Arch Rock was published as a pamphlet entitled, The North-West in 1817: A Contemporary Letter. Storrow, who was also on the Island that September. One of the two tiny figures drawn at the top of Belton’s image may be Judge Advocate Samuel A.
In part, his description of Michigan Territory reads:ĭetail of The Arched rock, Michilimackina by F.S. Known as the “father of American geography” (also father of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph) his books influenced the educational system of the United States, being widely used in classrooms for decades. The curiosities of this place consist of two natural caves, one of them is formed in the side of a hill, the other in a pyramidical rock of eighty feet in height, and thirty-five feet in diameter at its base, which is situated on a plain and totally detached from any rock or precipice… There are also two natural arches of the Gothic order which appear to have been formed by some convulsions in nature, one is eighty feet in height, the other is forty.”Īrch Rock received even broader attention in 1812, when a short description appeared in the sixth edition of Reverend Jedidah Morse’s American Universal Geography. “The island of Michilimackinac is about three miles long and two wide, situated in the straights that join lake Huron to lake Michigan… History of Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse.
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