Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Curious Wall in Michigan. [ARTICLE]

Curious Wall in Michigan.

Alfred Pagett, a Michigan archaeologist, lias boen making explorations of an ancient wall which he discovered in that State, which seems to be a sort of aboriginal counterpart of tire great wall of China, though some incredulous people declare that it is nothing more nor less than a moraive left by some prehistoric glacier. Mr. Pagett has traced its course from tiro county line between Tuscola and Sanilac counties, near Cass City, to a point near Lake Huron. The wall, he thinks, makes a complete semicircle from Saginaw Bay to Lake Huron. In its course the wall touches land covered with bowlders, scattered over areas from one to five acres, at intervals of from five to six miles. At Tyre it is a complete mass of stones, many being of giguntic size. Mr. Pagett believes there is not a break in the wall anywhere. It is remarkably even, running usually on the edge of a swamp. There are some who still think the wall a mere natural freak, but the greater number believe it the remains of some ancient fortification, which perhaps cut off the “Thumb” from the main peninsula of Michigan.