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Lake Superior
Almost every condition of his mining field was new and untried. The magnificent mining machinery and copper smelting works now operating in our northern mines, is, much of it, the creation of native genius, under the spur of necessity. In the mines, as elsewhere, the American citizen possessed the happy faculty of adapting himself to circumstances, or of bending circumstances to his own use. He had a firm grasp and soon came to manage great mines successfully, although his previous pursuits had been of a widely different character.
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