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Michigan's UP ISLE ROYAL
At a deep inlet known as McCargoe's Cove, on the north side of the island, excavations such as are described extend in almost a continuous line for more than two miles, in most instances the pits being so close together as barely to permit their convenient working. Even the rocky islets off the coast have not escaped the observation of those ancient miners, and where bearing veins of copper are generally worked. The stone hammers, or mauls, weighing from ten to even thirty pounds, the chief tool with which the labor was performed, have been found by cart loads; they are either perfect or broken from use, and the fragments of large numbers of them are found intermingled with the debris on the edge of the pits, or at their bottom. These mauls are occasionally found grooved for the affixture of the handle, but are oftener without this adaptation. Tools made of copper, and consisting principally of chisels and knives, have also been taken from such of the pits as have been explored. Arrow-heads of copper have also been picked up, both in the vicinity of the pits and scattered over the island at the surface, as if lost
in the chase.
Upper Penisula
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