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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ss of the Lake. islet, the outlet for the Iron Mountain lying back twelve miles in the interior, a ridgeof ore eight hundred feet high, which sends its thousands of tons year after year downto the iron-mills of Cleveland, Pittsburg, and Cincinnati, and scarcely misses them fromits massive sides. A fleet of hundreds of vessels belongs to this iron-bound coast; theirsails whiten the lakes from the opening of navigation to its close; they are the first tostart when, in the early spring, word comes that the ice is moving, and the last to leavewhen, in the late fall, word comes that the ice is making. Perilous voyages are theirs, LAKE SUPERIOR. 401 in the midst of grinding ice ; and sometimes they are caught in the fierce storms of Su-perior, going down with all on board off the harborless coast of the Pictured Rocks orthe Sables. The iron shoulders passed, next comes the copper arm of Keweenaw, the arrow inthe bow; the name signifies a portage; and the Indians, by crossing the base of the
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Great Palisade. point through Portage Lake and its streams, saved the long ninety miles around it.This copper arm has its history. Centuries ago its hills were mined, and the first whiteexplorers found the ancient works and tools, and wondered over them ; when they weretired of wondering, they ascribed them to the extinct Mound-Builders, whoever theywere, a most convenient race, who come in for all the riddles of the Western country, 51 402 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. and never rise from their graves to say us No. The Chippewas of Superior were fullof superstitious fear regarding Keweenaw Point; they believed that a demon residedthere, and dared not visit his domain to procure copper, without first propitiating himwith rites and gifts; then, trembling and in silence, they lighted fires around some ex-posed mass of the metal, and, when it was softened, they hastily cut off a small quan-tity, and fled to their canoes without looking back. So strong was their dread that, formany years, the expl

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