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Michigan's UP ISLE ROYAL
From another pit, beneath a third deposit of vegetable matter, the remains of the skeleton of a deer were exhumed. The bones were go decayed, however, that they crumbled to pieces, and it was only through the undecayed portions of an antler that the animal was recognized. It had evidently fallen into the pit long after it had been deserted, and unable to escape, had perished. Another interesting relic consists of sheet-like piece of copper, which had apparently been exposed to the action of fire and then had been partially hammered into a shape approximating to a bowl-like utensil. This, too, exhibits the character of the copper generally sought by those men. It is manifest from the working of the veins, that those miners followed the deposits of sheet-like copper, which varied from a quarter of an inch to an inch in thickness, rejecting as unmanageable the fragments of rock which contained even large-sized nuggets of the metal.
Upper Penisula
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