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Show Traces of Townsites of Undetermined Age Discovered on Isle Royale by Explorers Royale long before Father Dablon in the Seventeenth century made the first white man's visit to the territory, were taken back to Ann Arbor by Doctor Guthe and his assistants," Kirby said. The history of a vanished race that once inhabited Isle Royale has not been rendered Illegible by the forest growth, according to George A West, of the Milwaukee Public museum, who with other scientists conducted an expedition searching into lore of the island. Traces of townsites of a still-undetermined age have been found which tend to bear out the evidence obtained in long-forgotten burial grounds that Isle Royale's copper was mined by a prehistoric race that made seasonal raids on the island. "Mystery surrounds the discovery of three depressions found in the eastern extremity of the entrance to McCargoe's cove by Dr Carl E Guthe and Fred Dustin, University of Michigan archeologists according accord-ing to Earl G. Kirby, whose ship, the Alabama, calls regularly at Isle Eoyale on cruises from the lower 'Bowl-shaped, the depressions disclosed a 14-inch layer of carefully Seed rock, under which was found a Ted of harcoaI- Pttery r r relics of the Indian c.vUization believed to have reigned on Isle |