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Michigan's UP ISLE ROYAL
Some contend that, during so long a lapse of time, they have completely disappeared through decay. But this conclusion will hardly be accepted as satisfactory. It is difficult to believe but that, of a population so crowded as is implied by the extensive excavations on Isle Royale, some must have died during even the periodic occupation of the island, and have been buried there; and it is to bo hoped that the explorations in process of being made will result in the discovery of human remains. These will, doubtless, identify this people with the Mound-builders, whose monuments are so widely distributed through our country. The conformation of the bones of this race, and especially the cranium, as has been already remarked, widely separate from the North American Indian, an 1 ally them rather with the ancient inhabitants of Brazil; the skull being ortho-cephalic, i. e., occupies a position between the Indian cranium, which is brachyceplialic, and the Teutonic, which is dolicocephalic.
Upper Penisula
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