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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Mr. S.
P. Ely was chairman of the committee and came to your narrator for consul-
tation with him as a Chippewa expert. Mr. Ely finally put the decision
upon me, and I selected Ishpeming, which is a general term in Ojibwa for
any remarkable elevation, and is sometimes applied to Heaven itself. If any
one hereafter has any fault to find with the name, I am content to take the
responsibility of it. The inhabitants are pleased with it, and I am happy
to say that they conspiciously display the moral elevation which the name
of their town suggests.
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