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THOMPSON § COAST PILOT. way ted on elevated ground, rising about 150 feet above the waters of Lake Huron, here celebrated for their purity. The population amounts to about 5,000, and is rapidly increasing in numbers and wealth. Steamers run daily from this port to Sarnia, Detroit, Sag- inaw and other ports on Lake Huron, A line of propellers, carrying passengers and freight, also run from Goderich to Mackinac, Mil- - waukee, Chicago, etc., connecting with the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway, thus forming a through line of travel from Buffalo to the above ports. There are several other ports of importance lying north of | Goderich, on the Canada side of the lake, from whence steamers run to and fro almost daily, during the season of navigation. MICHIGAN--HISTORY, STATISTICS, ETC. ' The word Michigan is probably derived from two words in the Chippewa language, " Mitchaw,"' great, or mighty, and " Sagiegan,"' lake--great lake--and according to its etymology and present application. to the Peninsula, is rendered, «the country or land of great lakes."" In the Azteka,. or old Mexican language, A T L sig- nified the country of water or lakes, or "lake country," and Azte- kas the "people of the lakes." The opinion of Humboldt was that < this country lay as far North as the forty-second degree of latitude," which would place it above the southern boundary of Michigan, making it embrace a greater or less portion of the Peninsula. The appellation of 'lake country'? would be peculiarly appropriate to the Peninsula, as it is believed that there is no sec- tion of country that can compare with the southern half of it in the number of its lakes, as the country is literally spotted with small lakes of from one-half to four miles in circumference, and above all surrounded by several of the largest lakes in the, world, the three lakes of Superior, Huron and Michigan having an aggregate of nearly 80,000 square miles of surface. The very origin of the word Michigan, as well as numerous relics of antiquity found within her borders, go to strongly support the position that this was the identical region inhabited by the Aztekas in the primeval ages of their existence in America, and that the present race of Indians succeeded the Aztekas, and adopted in their own language an appellation derived from them.