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Michigan Ancient Garden Beds
Fig. 6-6, of class 6, is from a drawing by James R. Cumings, of Gales-burg, of a garden in which the beds are of more than usual diversity in width and length. H. M. Shatter and Roswell Ransom, old settlers, say that three or four acres on the edge of the prairie, at this place, were covered with the beds. On the farm of the latter in the town of Comstock, of one hundred acres, there were not less than ten acres of beds, six feet by twenty five to forty, arranged in alternate blocks, having a north and south and east and west direction.
Fig. 6-c, is from a drawing by Mr. Shafter.
The series represented by Class 7, (fig. 7) were found at Prairie Ronde. They are platted and described to me by Messrs. Cobb & Prouty. They differ from the more ordinary form of No. 6, in the arrangement of the blocks or sets of beds, which is here not at right angles, but at various and irregular angles, also in the single beds outlying. ' The number of beds in each block is also greater than usual.
Class 8 is established on the authority of Henry Little and A. T. Prouty, of Kalamazoo.
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