BEAL ON MICHIGAN COAT OF ARMS. 



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back are a house and a baiu, and in front a man plowing, and near the 

 railroad a telejiraph line is seen. On the left ajtjx'ars to be a factory of 

 some kind, perhajjs a sawmill. 



In ISSO (as shown by Fig. 4) there is another change; the eagle has 

 alighted on the shicdd, bnt the ti])S of his wings point up in a strained 

 position against the strip which holds the motto, "E pluribus unura.'" The 

 cars and telegraph have left all traces of existence, the steam boat has de- 

 parted; the house and factm-v have been swept away; the plowman has 



Fig. 



probably gone to dinner; the sun shines more brightly; the moose has 

 again found his own horns, which look as tiiough they were stuck on the 

 head of a calf; the shaggy mane has been toned down, and here we have 

 the fourth form of the shield that has appeared. The moose and ellc 

 having taken a rest for two or three years have again reared on their hind 

 feet and support the shield in a graceful manner. 



In 1883-84 there are again signs of a gieat <-()nimotiOn. (See Fig. 5.) 

 Gov. Begole comes into office. The rays of an imaginary sun concealed by 



Fig. 4. 



the shield, flash far u]» into the sky beyond the shield, and a great cloud 

 of dust or smoke appears on each side back of the elk and moose. The 

 rays of the visibk' sun lising from the distant lake are not pai-allel with 

 the rays emanating from back of the shield. The moose has changed his 

 head and again has found his shaggy neck. The eagle is the same as 

 on the former design. In all these changes the latin mottoes are not 

 disturbed. 



At th(^ top of some of the jtapcr now and foi- some years used by the 



