. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. 1853.] THE ANCIENT MINERS OP LAKE SUPERIOR. Tbe cuts on tlie piece I now have are made with a duller tool, and appareiitly, having a curved edge like an adze. An axe or adze, of that kind, has been found in one of the mounds in Ross county, Ohio, It is figured and described by Mr. Squier, and also two other kinds of axes, and the mode of fasten- ing a handle or helve to them, on pages 197-8-9 of the " Con- ; As yet no such axes ha\'e been found on
. The Canadian journal ; a repertory of industry, science, and art ; and a record of the proceedings of the Canadian Institute. 1853.] THE ANCIENT MINERS OP LAKE SUPERIOR. Tbe cuts on tlie piece I now have are made with a duller tool, and appareiitly, having a curved edge like an adze. An axe or adze, of that kind, has been found in one of the mounds in Ross county, Ohio, It is figured and described by Mr. Squier, and also two other kinds of axes, and the mode of fasten- ing a handle or helve to them, on pages 197-8-9 of the " Con- ; As yet no such axes ha\'e been found on Lake Supeiior. The only implements found there, which are made of copper, and which are from the rubbish of the old works at a depth of five to fifteen feet below the present surface, are figured below. One is a chisel, an inch wide, with a bevel edge and a sockst to receive a wooden handle, and is five inches long. Another is a "gad," or wedge, such as quarry men now use, and is four inches long, both of which are figui-ed and desci'ibed in the report of the Geologists, for the year 1850, and are from the Minnesotah ancient workino-s. The third is a spear-head, in the possession of S. W. Hill, Esquire, of the Copper Falls mine, lij!, four and a half inches in length, which had the k remains of a handle in it when found. It is repre- J\ '/( sen ted below, the section through the line a J is <z^l!!U shown at 1, and the section across the shank c d, is shown at 2. it had not rotted from exposure to the atmosphere, having been always covered by water. The timber was of a dark color, and shrank very much on drying; but the marks of the instrument by which it was cut off, were as plain and as perfect as they were on the logs and stumps reeontly cut in the vicinity. Di- rectly o\er the mass, and o\or the timber which supported it, theie stood, on tiie rubbish that covered tlie mass, about 12 feet in depth, a hemlock tree, that had recently been cut down, on the stump of
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