Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal . the hills faced towards the north. Thegrooves were about nine hundred feet above the levelof Lake Superior. Large erratic boulders coveredthe surface of the land. I measured one of themwhich was lying exposed in a depression between twoconical hills, eight hundred and fifty feet above thelake. It must have weighed over twenty tons. Theboulders were usually masses of basalt, black or redgranite, porph
Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal . the hills faced towards the north. Thegrooves were about nine hundred feet above the levelof Lake Superior. Large erratic boulders coveredthe surface of the land. I measured one of themwhich was lying exposed in a depression between twoconical hills, eight hundred and fifty feet above thelake. It must have weighed over twenty tons. Theboulders were usually masses of basalt, black or redgranite, porphyry and jasper. E-ounded boulders ofpure copper are sometimes found. One of these, ofexceptional size, was in the forest, in the directionof Ontonagon, and was estimated to weigh abouteighteen tons. Near Houghton, Mr. Forster showed me the sur-face of a hill, four hundred feet above the lake, whichhad been made perfectly smooth by the action of thedrift passing over it. At another part where therock was exposed we counted fifty-seven groovesover a space of sixty-seven feet of surface. Judgingfrom the direction of the groovings on the Kee-wai-wona promontory and the iron hills of Michigan,. Chippewa Chief,(west of lake sdperior.) BEECH-TREE. 51 the boulders appear to have been carried frora Lab-rador. The waters and floatmg icebergs must have sweptover this country Avith much force for in many placesthe pressure exerted seems to have been enormous. On my way south from this land, which containedso much that attracted attention, I visited the reser-vation of the Oneidas, at the spot where the councilfire of that tribe was originally established, nearLake Ontario. I was received by the hereditary chiefof that tribe, who was named Beech-tree. As hecould not speak a word of English, our conversationwas carried on with the assistance of his grandson,who acted as interpreter. Beech-tree was a large,broad shouldered man, with a remarkably massivehead. If I had met him in the north of C
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