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Michigan's UP ISLE ROYAL
Their characteristics suggest a people, who, though not of any great intellectual development, are yet capable of patient endeavor, and the unremitting toil which is devoted to the amelioration of life through the improvement of its surroundings, and are not devoid of an ambition which, however humble, places them above the Indian in the scale of humanity.
It is also remarkable that the discoveries of the remains at the settlements on the South shore of Lake Superior have never included human bones, so far as I am aware, but have been confined chiefly to excavations, copper tools, and stone hammers. It is possible those men may have had some superstitious beliefs which led to the removal of their dead to their burial-mound further south.
Of the excavations on the small islands lying off Isle Royale, an interesting example was discovered by me on the rocky islet which, for the purpose of distinguishing it, I have named, from its general outline, Triangle Island, it being hitherto unnamed on any of the maps.
Upper Penisula
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