. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . City Hall Square. DET^ROIX THE CITY OF THE STRAIT. America is too often derided for its mushroom growth,and, like Philip Doddridge, accused of his youth—a defect^which that distinguished divine replied time would remedy.■1^Detroit, the metropolis of Michigan, has, however, a veryrespectable age and a history full of striking adventure andpicturesqueness. The panorama of its life is a succession ofstriking pictures, accompanied by the martial music of diversenations and the symphonies of varied peaceful industries. In t
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . City Hall Square. DET^ROIX THE CITY OF THE STRAIT. America is too often derided for its mushroom growth,and, like Philip Doddridge, accused of his youth—a defect^which that distinguished divine replied time would remedy.■1^Detroit, the metropolis of Michigan, has, however, a veryrespectable age and a history full of striking adventure andpicturesqueness. The panorama of its life is a succession ofstriking pictures, accompanied by the martial music of diversenations and the symphonies of varied peaceful industries. In the first scene we see three birch-bark canoes breastingthe steady current of the broad stream, and landing hereunder the broad trees that overhang the bank, and ten whitemen, two of whom are robed in black. These break in piecesand throw into the water a great stone idol. It is the firstincursion of the Christian iconoclasts, for these are the Sul-pitian fathers, Galinee and Dollier, and the date is 1670. The second scene shows a strange vessel, with broad sailsand g
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