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Michigan's UP ISLE ROYAL
Though careful search was made, no relics were met with other than the angular fragments of the rock broken off by the usual methods pursued by those rude miners. The fragments occasionally contained copper.
One of the smaller pits, a little over two feet in diameter and nearly
two feet deep, had a large slab of rock covering its mouth. It required two men to remove this. We found this pit more than half full of the angular fragments above alluded to; but though emptied of its contents nothing further was encountered, to our disappointment, as, from indications, we hoped to find this the repository of some valuable relics. Had any tools or other utensils been deposited here, as a place of safety, they had long since disappeared; probably decaying through the lapse of ages. From appearances and the isolated character of the island, I am inclined to think that mine were the first hands to rest on those objects since the departure of the primitive workmen.
Upper Penisula
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