








LAKE OF THE WOODS—GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 
erous in other regions, and more especially in the country north and — 
of Lake Superior. They are there found to yield silver and gold " 
in paying quantities, and also contain copper and iron ores, and it is no * 
_ improbable that systematic investigation of the rocks of the Lake of the 3 
~ Woods may lead to similar discoveries. The examination and definition peg 
Bey, OF these bands of newer rocks among the Laurentian, therefore becomes es 
fy ih important in view of future mineral discoveries, as well as interesting ih 
ein purely geological point of view. 
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