 | Michigan - 1881 - 744 pages
...excited amazement. The island is about fifty miles long, from five to nine in breadth, with a ragged, rocky shore, and cut up into deep gorges and is covered...workmanship. The working out the ore was no doubt by heating aud pouring on water — very slow and tedious, aud yet it is said that although two hundred men with... | |
 | Kent County (Mich.) - 1881 - 1431 pages
...of stone hammers and mauls weighing from 10 to 30 pounds have HIEROGLYPHICS OF THE MOUND -BUILDERS. been found, some broken from use and some in good...arrowheads have been discovered. The copper tools have been Tiardened by fire. Working out the ore was doubtless done by heating and pouring on water,... | |
 | Michael A. Leeson, Damon Clark - Saginaw County (Mich.) - 1881 - 974 pages
...of stone hammers and mauls weighing from 10 to <JO pounds have HIEROGLYPHICS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. been found, some broken from use and some in good...arrowheads have been discovered. The copper tools have been hardened by fire. Working out the ore svas doubtless done by heating and pouring on water,... | |
 | Jackson County (Mich.) - 1881 - 1173 pages
...hammers and mauls weighing from 10 to 80 pounds have HIEROGLYPHICS OF THE MO UND- BUILDERS. '^¿l. >-4' been found, some broken from use and some in good...arrowheads have been discovered. The copper tools have been hardened by fire. Working out the ore was doubtless done by heating and pouring on water,—... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1911 - 340 pages
...excH'ig amazement. The island is about nfty mil^s long, iroii.". ve to nine in breadth, with a ragged, rocky shore, and cut up into deep gorges and is covered...polished and of good workmanship. ' ' The working out of the ore was no doubt by heating and pouring on water — very slow and tedious, and yet it is said... | |
 | America - 1911 - 734 pages
...closely connected ; quantities of stone hammers and mauls, weighing from ten to thirty pounds, have teen found, some broken from Use and some in good condition...polished and of good workmanship. "The working out of the ore was no doubt by heating and pouring on water — very slow and tedious, and yet it is said... | |
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They are connected underground and drains are cut to carry off the water; there is one deep cut in the rock, covered its entire length by timbers that are now decayed and the whole is a mass of rotten wood. At McCargoe's cove there are nearly two miles... 