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Michigan's UP

ISLE ROYAL

The discoveries on Isle Royale throw a new light on the character of the Mound-builders, giving us a totally different conception of them, and dignifying them with something of the prowess and spirit of adventure which we associate with the higher races of men. The copper, the object of the mining, to be available, must in all probability, have been conveyed in vessels, great or small, across a stormy and treacherous sea, whose dangers are formidable to us now, being dreaded by even our largest craft, and often proving their destruction. Leaving their homes, these men dared to face the unknown—to brave the hardships and perils of the deep and of the wilderness, actuated by an ambition which we to-day would not be ashamed to acknowledge. In contemplating the facts involved, many questions are naturally suggested. How did these people become aware of those mineral deposits at so isolated a point? How did the men become present in such large numbers as is implied by the extent of the works discovered ?

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