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Michigan's UP

ISLE ROYAL

The caribou, long extinct here, gives evidence of his former presence in the horns which are some times found; and I have now in my possession two interesting relics—the larger portions of the antlers of this animal, much decayed and gnawed by rodents—which were picked up at two separate points on the island. However, we have hitherto supposed that the Mound-builders were essentially an agricultural people, largely dependent on cereals for subsistence. If grain food was used by them, as is probable, it was most likely transported to the island in sufficient supply from a more southern latitude. The so-called "garden beds," covering so wide an area of the St. Joseph River and Grand River Valleys, Michigan, as well as similar grounds of other places, demonstrate the agricultural habits of the ancient people of this region. The remains of these cultivated fields also afford a clue as to the source of the chief part of the supplies required for the mining adventurers in the northern country.

Upper Penisula

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