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symbols A. T. S. and signifying " Lake Country," from 

 which also their own name is derived, making it to 

 mean " the people of the lake country.'' They refer 

 to their former home as a country lying towards the 

 north and giving further details which might be 

 descriptive of the Peninsular State — so the theorist 

 thinks. As a coincident, but advanced nevertheless 

 as a strong argument, the learned gentleman states 

 that the Wyandots have a tradition to the effect that 

 hundreds of years ago, the builders of the mounds 

 were driven southward by invaders from the north- 

 east; and pursuing the magic thread, he suggests that 

 the Aztecs were usurpers. in Mexico according to their 

 own traditions and the corroboration of Spanish 

 history. If this is the case, my comrade and myself, 

 in visiting this pretty little lake, may have trodden 

 upon the same soil which had been pressed by the 

 feet of the mysterious builders of the mounds. I am 

 personally a trifle sceptical on this point, and believe 

 that the key to this part of ancient history is yet to be 

 found. 



^inetu-fiftl) Sag. 



Kalamazoo ITonse, 



Kalamazoo, Michigan, 



August Fourteenth. 



On this day I passed a fine wheat-growing section 

 in the valley of the Kalamazoo, whose richest part is 

 probably near the Big Village — its namesake. This 

 river, which drains Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, Calhoun 

 and Allegan counties, and is navigable for forty miles 

 above its mouth, has, I believe, more traffic than any 



