Fox Islands corpus record: sn85025007 1856 04 16 ed1 p2 (1856-04-16)

Summary

This source-body record preserves one locally grounded Fox Islands mention. It is an evidence node, not an event claim: generic references remain generic unless a separate curated activity article names a source-specific activity.

Indexed context

il is sent by a man on snow shoes eighty miles and back at my private ex pense, I do not get off but one or two a month. Our winter so far has beeu very tine, though a little cooler than usual; but the field ice is immense, beyond all example. I think there is two thousaud square miles more of ice north of the Maniton Islands than have been known before within the date of the earliest tradition. Nine feet of ice was found by cutting through off’ South Fox Island, where ice was never seen before. This is to be at tributed as much to the stilloess of the wa ter as to the severity of the cold. Very lit tle ice is banked. Most of it remains undis turbed where first formed.” The i!r«pe Culture. Mr. N. Longworth, the pioneer of the grape culture and wine manufacture on the Obio river—and whose wines have generally been pronounced far superior to most of the foreign importations—publishes a letter to the publi

Scope and limits

The audit classified this body as local because it uses a directional Fox name or a Michigan/Beaver cue. Exact-body deduplication suppresses only byte-identical mirrors; alternate OCR editions may remain separate. Check the cited source before making a historical claim.

See also

• Beaver Island archipelago
• South Fox Island