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'Huron, is an ancient "taboo" rock of the early and sent a plague on the whole tribe, wiping them k" -- _ ols :y; o & 'f © --Undian and a spot near which even the modern In-- out completely. And, so they say, it was their bones tine:-- AHlstl _ m . o . . 'dian would prefer not to camp. 4 that the first white men found in the caves of the ic _ or j"«,';"{g;:f:'«,«.«m%?;*';. 4 ' _ Flowerpot Island, three miles off Tobermory in island. Even today, also you can sometimes see the . "3' 8 o oo k: 3 ?;,;«:;' e t ts Ontario, today is a National Park. Tidy cook--stoves _ lonely Indian maid walking on the shore under the $ > in Mess . . ';;m«m and a picnicshelter have been set up on the island _ Flowerpot. s _ .. e Eow M,x:éigfs"g by the Department of Lands and Forests, and a . Modern scientists may scoff at such ghostly: ho it . Ph+ '{x',%:gx'a;"é% winking lighthouse warns ships away from the _ tales, but they still are not a hundred percent sure w 2 . .. g;g;?&%,,/b}: a (treacherous shoals. Twostrange--looking "flowerpots" _ What actually causes a "flowerpot." This natural v'wx« 4 ,'?'.'i %*@WZ':&:\: lare &)fliilts of. interest to thousands of visitors who _ oddity rises on a slender pedestal like the base of f "'%%x e atee .. "fE@WM 1 flood through the neck of the Bruce Peninsula each a goblet. A man standing alongside it is dwarfed by W uc oo e wie / . . w;g;;@g%é \ year. But, from the water, and unmistakably, you a mass of stone that looks<as if it were cut and e ':%@%fi:'?fi ».2'& Nee (lP 000 ocpaaes & i can see a great, forhidding stone face, an ancient | fitted by a master mason, 3 > e ie e l oc e age ; \Indian staring gilently out to sea. ~ + Undoubtedly, the glaciers had a hand in the ' No . ; _ Many years ago, they say, before the Iroquois~/-- formation, and then the tools of water and. wind Sn j > f (wars and ma es, and when the Algonquin In-- did the finer work until the softer rocks were eaten 'tfi?%?;":{'_ \ J : f dians still stole silentfonted down the forest paths away, the harder ones left balanced on top. ?Jrv ; \ of Georgian Bay, the dusky daughter of an Algon-- Originally,--there were three flowerpots standing {[«;" i \ 'quin chief was courted by a Huron brave, in spite.. on Flowerpot Island. Today, there are only two, pove Above: The rough profile on. the, 'of her fafllpr's disapproval. However, the princess = for one of them finally toppled and crashed on the se 8 wight side .of Flowerpot, Rock is, . and her Indian brave met secretly every sunset undet®. rocky shore. But newspaper headlines grew excited, ', supposed to be. that, of an jAlgon-- 'the tall column of rock that rose at the water's a few years ago, when a new flowerpot was dis-- hok L on » in Chiel .. (o=s u oof) oen Cgaintn' @erge and there, one--night, the Chief, himself, 'Ia"fi'siz covered in a lonely cove of the mainland, This g}':'é{r forl sog it 4P sntateine t % ffi*'fl- C _ "Devil's Pulpit® rising among the shrubbery, is if,\" \, $ [ With one blow, he scalped the young Huron... shunned equally by Indians who see something un-- g'?'f,;é";'}' s !But, next day, the grieving princess was missing, _ canny in this freak of nature, and by tourists who Sn oo f {and she, too, was found dead under the shadow of _ must. pick their way through the woods and down g:f;{&{g{v;?&;_ Left: If you find the face hard to (the "flowerpot." Only then, did the father realize . a high cliff to see it! But even the non--superstitious '&}A\L{f distinguish, here's a simplifica-- | what he had done, and his grief was so great when white man sees something strange in the three Lz(u;'jsn tion of it. 7 he found his daughter that his anguish left an im-- -- known flowerpots, one of them with a great stone ,'4;,';;?;:;:.1,, * \ pression on the fifty--foot tower of stone. There, to _ face, rising gauntly on the shores of Georgian wfi%{ 5 3 a this day, you can see the imprint of his features _ Bay.--A. L. 4# & l;w t C f ; t ' _ ' P i S t o o n e I' 1 ' m \