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antiweighing a hundred pounds each, besidestwenty-five packs of otter and marten skins;and with this part of the fruits of my adventureI embarked for Michilimackinac, sailing incompany with fifty canoes of Indians who hadstill a hundred packs of beaver which I wasunable to purchase.On my way I encamped a second time at themouth of the Ontonagan and now took theopportunity of going ten miles up the riverwith Indian guides. The object which I wentmost expressly to see, and to which I had thesatisfaction of being led, was a mass of copperof the weight, according to my estimate, of noless than five tons. Such was its pure and malleablestate, that with an axe I was able to cut10off a portion weighing a hundred pounds.On viewing the surrounding surface I conjecturedthat the mass at some period or otherhad rolled from the side of a lofty hill whichrises at its back.10This mass of copper, later known as Copper Rock,was known to explorers from a very early period. Atthe time of the boom in the Copper Country in theearly 'forties, possession was taken of Copper Rock bysome miners from the lead-mines ot southern Wisconsin.It was later removed to the Smithsonian Institutionat Washington. Editor.197