40 CKEES. 



among the western Algonkins, that their ancestors 

 came from the eastern coast. It is probable that 

 the Mengwe, on the contrary, advanced from the 

 west, if we may judge by the way in which their 

 tribes are distributed. The aggressive movements, 

 however, of the two nations, would throw little 

 light on the primary peopling of the continent, 

 even were they ascertained, since there are traces 

 of their respective districts having been previously 

 occupied by a people of small stature but superior 

 in the arts, who have left memorials of their exist- 

 ence, in numerous and extensive earth-works, and 

 mounds of ancient date, wherein copper bosses 

 overlaid with silver have been found. The shafts 

 or galleries lately discovered at the copper mines 

 on the south side of Lake Superior, containing 

 immense quantities of stone chisels, betoken a 

 people more advanced than the Canadians were on 

 the first arrival of the French ; and are said to be 

 now followed by the American miners, as guides 

 to the most valuable deposits of native copper. 



The wars of the Eytliinyuwuk and the Mengwe 

 with each other, or with Europeans, have been 

 recorded by many pens, and have supplied incidents 



contains many errors. The chart, of course, has all the imper- 

 fections which attached to the geography of the great lakes and 

 more northern country then, and for more than a century after- 

 wards. 



