. A complete geography. harbor are two cities, Duluth and Superior,which together have a population of little less than one hundredthousand. The chief products of this vicinity are iron, lumber, andwheat, which are shipped eastward in immense quantities from thesetwo ports. Owing to the neighborhood of the Minnesota andDakota wheat fields, there are enormous elevators at Duluth forstoring grain, and flour-mills for grinding it up. The iron oredocks, sawmills, and lumber wharves are also busy places. Goods are shipped to this point as well as away from it; for while thepeople in this section ha
. A complete geography. harbor are two cities, Duluth and Superior,which together have a population of little less than one hundredthousand. The chief products of this vicinity are iron, lumber, andwheat, which are shipped eastward in immense quantities from thesetwo ports. Owing to the neighborhood of the Minnesota andDakota wheat fields, there are enormous elevators at Duluth forstoring grain, and flour-mills for grinding it up. The iron oredocks, sawmills, and lumber wharves are also busy places. Goods are shipped to this point as well as away from it; for while thepeople in this section have some materials to spare, they also need manyothers, as farming implements, clothing, various kinds of food, furniture,and coal. These goods are brought cheaply, because the vessels carryingore, wheat, and lumber eastward must have something to bring back. As 138 NOETH AMERICA already suggested (p. 83), it is the needs and products of the inhabitantsof this distant region which help to make Buffalo, Montreal, and New. Fig. vessels, the one in front being called a whaleback. York so important, and to keep the mills and factories of New Englandso^busy. Explain how this is true. At the outlet of Lake Superior into Lake Hm-on, there are rapids whichinterfere with navigation; and to avoid these a ship canal, called the SaultSte. Marie, or Soo, canal, has been dug. On its banks is a city of thesame name. Chicago. — While Lake Superior extends far into the CentralStates in one direction, Lake Michigan reaches a long way inanother ; and near its southern extremity, in Illinois, the great cityof Chicago is located. At this point the small Chicago Riverempties into the lake (Fig. 117), forming a small harbor, and times a fort was located there. The harbor itself was formedthousands of years ago while the great glacier was melting that time, the ice sheet lay across Lake Michigan, forming a hugedam which prevented the waters from flowing into Lake Huron andth
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