 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - Wisconsin - 1908 - 496 pages
...which was on the bank of a river, near a great lake. He said that they [the savages of those parts] gathered it in lumps, and having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones." In the light of modern knowledge, it is not difficult to recognize Lake Superior as the home of this... | |
 | Lake Superior Mining Institute - Mineral industries - 1910 - 924 pages
...drew from a lack a piece of copper a foot long, which he gave me. * * * He gave me to underhand that there were large quantities where he had taken this which was on the bank of a river, (the Ontonagon?) near a great lake. He said they gathered it in lumps." On his map of 1632 is shown... | |
 | Arthur L. Carnahan, Lake Superior Mining Institute - Copper mines and mining - 1912 - 68 pages
...drew from a fack a piece of copper a foot long, which he gave me. * * * He gave me to underftand that there were large quantities where he had taken this which was on the bank of a river, (the Ontonagon?) near a great lake. He said they gathered it iu lumps." On his map of 1632 is shown... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1924 - 430 pages
...This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that there were large quantities whore had taken this, which was on the bank of a river near a large lake. He said that they gathered it in great lumps, and having melted it, spread it in sheets... | |
 | Otto Fowle - Great Lakes (North America) - 1925 - 528 pages
...foot long, which he gave to me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the bank of a river near a lake. He said that they gathered it in lumps, and having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing... | |
 | Education - 1902 - 812 pages
...him by an Algonquin. It was a foot long. The great discoverer said, " He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the banks of a river, near a great lake. He said that they gathered it in lumps, and having melted it,... | |
 | Prince Society (Boston, Mass.) - United States - 1878 - 344 pages
...a foot long, which he gave me. This was very handfome and quite pure. He gave me to underftand that there were large quantities where he had taken this,...was on the bank of a river, near a great lake. He faid that they gathered it in lumps, and, having melted it, fpread it in meets, fmoothing 237 'it with... | |
 | Anthony P. Schiavo, Jr, Claudio R. Salvucci - History - 2003 - 423 pages
...foot long which he gave to me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the bank of a river near the great lake. He said that they gathered it in lumps and having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1880 - 438 pages
...a foot long, which he gave me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this,...on the bank of a river, near a great lake. He said they gathered it in lumps, and having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones." The... | |
 | Minnesota - 1885 - 554 pages
...a foot long, which he gave me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the bank of a river, now a great lake. He said they gathered it in lumps, and having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing... | |
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Shortly after conferring with them about many matters concerning their wars, the Algonquin savage, one of their chiefs, drew from a sack a piece of copper a foot long, which he gave me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that... 
