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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Douglass Houghton, whose memory is deeply reverenced throughout the
region, where were his latest labors and where he lost his life, was engaged
in the linear survey of this portion of the upper peninsula. The late Mr.
Wm. A. Burt, deputy surveyor under him, was running the township lines
in Marquette county, and on the 18th of September encamped, with his.
party, at the east end of Teal Lake. Mr. Jacob Houghton was a member of
that party, and gives the following account of the first discovery of Lake
Superior iron ore:
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