Ish'peming, a city of Michigan, 15 miles W. of Marquette on Lake Superior, and 392 miles N. of Chicago by rail. Large quantities of iron ore (a red hematite) are quarried close by, and the town possesses foundries, blast-furnaces, &c. Many of the miners are Scandinavians. Pop. 6840.
Ish'peming
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 231
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