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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PETOSKEY , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Emmet county. See also:

Michigan, U.S.A., on Little See also:

TRAVERSE

Traverse See also:

BAY

Bay, an See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm of See also:

Lake Michigan, at the mouth of See also:

Bear See also:

Creek, in the See also:

north-See also:

west See also:

PART

part of the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

peninsula. Pop. (189o), 2872; (1900), 5285, of whom 856 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1904), 5186; (1910), 4778. It is served by the Pere See also:

Marquette and the See also:

GRAND

Grand Rapids & See also:

INDIANA

Indiana See also:

RAIL

rail-ways and by steamboat lines to See also:

Chicago, See also:

DETROIT

Detroit, See also:

BUFFALO

Buffalo and other lake ports. Bear Creek furnishes considerable See also:

WATER

water-See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power, and among the manufactures are See also:

LUMBER

lumber, See also:

paper, See also:

leather and foundry and See also:

machine-See also:

SHOP

shop products. Petoskey was settled about 1874, was incorporated as a See also:

VILLAGE

village in 1879, was chartered as a city in 1895, and in 1902 replaced Harbor Springs as county-seat. It was named after an Ojibwa See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

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