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150 miles through Keweenaw, Houghton, and Ontonagon coun- 
ties, with a width varying from four to seven miles. They also 
wrought the copper deposits of the Trap range of Isle Royal, cov- 
ering an area of about forty miles in length, by an average of five 
miles in width. The.article by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, on 
prehistoric copper implements, treats the subject from an historical 
point of view. We drew attention to this paper on its first appear-. 
ance in the Mew England Historical and Genealogical Register, for 
January, 1879. We are next treated to a symposium on copper- 
working—were the ancient copper-workers acquainted with the art 
of smelting copper? Mr. Draper opens the discussion, inclining 
slightly to the affirmative, and is followed by Mr. Fred. S. Per- 
kins on the same side. The opposite view is advocated by Col. 
Charles Whittlesey and Doctor P. R. Hoy. It has occurred to 
us, as greenhorns, to ask some of our friends to try the effect of 
sound as a test. Make a mold of one of the implements sup- 
posed to have been cast. Take a cast copy, suspend it alongside 
West Salem, Wis. On pages 188-194, Mr. Benjamin Sulté, of 
Ottowa, Canada, gives us a résumé of the labors of Jean Nicolet, 
in which the author affirms that “ Nicolet must have traveled to 
the Mississippi, in the year 1634-5, from July to July, because 
The papers on the Rev. Eleazer 
Williams, by Gen. A. G. Ellis and Mr, Lyman C. Draper, pp. 
322-352, are certainly interesting reading upon a very great. 
conundrum. In this connection we may say that the Rev. J. P. 
McLean, of Hamilton, Ohio, will commence in the July number 
of the Universalist Quarterly, a series of three articles upon the 
Study of American archeology. Mr. McLean is one of our most — 
diligent workers in the West, and will, doubtless, present the sub- 
Ject in its latest phases. Moet, 
CLIFF-DWELLINGS IN SOUTHERN Urau.—Mr. A. L. Siler has dis- 
Covered at Malley’s Nipple Ranch, near Pahreah, Kane county, 
tah, remains of cliff-structures, which he déscribes as follows : 
The remains seem to have been the foundations of small huts built 
on ledges of red sandstone under overhanging cliffs. The walls 
Were about six inches thick, made of thin, flat sandstone brought 
up from the valley below, and laid in adobe. The structures are 
- divided into rooms about four feet square, leaving all the space 
_ between the building and the back of the cliff, usually about ten 
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