" _Tahkoo Wakan_, pp. 88-9.
[83] _Gah-ma-na-tek-wahk--the river of many falls_--is the Ojibway name of
the river commonly called Kaministiguia, near the mouth of which is
situated Fort William. The view on Thunder-Bay is one of the grandest in
America. Thunder-Cap, with its sleeping stone-giant, looms up into the
heavens. Here _Ka-be-bon-ikka_--the Ojibway's god of storms--flaps his
huge wings and makes the Thunder. From this mountain he sends forth the
rain, the snow, the hail, the lightning and the tempest. A vast giant,
turned to stone by his magic, lies asleep at his feet. The island called
by the Ojibways the _Mak-i-nak_ (the turtle) from its tortoise-like
shape, lifts its huge form in the distance. Some "down-east Yankee"
called it "Pie-island," from its fancied resemblance to a pumpkin pie,
and the name, like all bad names, _sticks_. McKay's Mountain on the
mainland, a perpendicular rock more than a thousand feet high, upheaved
by the throes of some vast volcano, and numerous other bold and
precipitous headlands, and rock-built islands, around which roll the
sapphire-blue waters of the fathomless bay, present some of the most
magnificent views to be found on either continent.
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