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20 miles west of the last, whicli have been built by the Sioux or Chip- 

 pewas. 



At Little Traverse bay, Beaver islands, Mackinac straits, Sault 

 Ste. Marie, Grand island bay, Marquette, L'Anse, Houghton, Calumet, 

 Ontonagon, Bayfield, Ashlaud, and Fond du Lac, and in the neighbor 

 hood of every one of them, are still to be found traders, trappers, and 

 hunters who have explored almost every mile of the territory, some of 

 them having spent fifty years iu such work; and the statement is 

 unauimous that nowhere about any of these places, nor along the shores 

 of Lake Superior generally, are any mounds to be found. A few which 

 have been rejjorted are either the remains of old root houses, or else 

 due to natural causes. 



It may be safely said that at none of the places where the ancient 

 Jesuit missions were located, in any part of the country included in 

 the above limits, are any mounds or other earthworks — using the term 

 iu its ordinary meaning and excluding those known to have been made 

 in recent times, and of these there are but few. 



Those reported at Beaver island are only the natural sand dunes or 

 hills used occasionally like those about the foot of Lake Huron as 

 burial places. 



