A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . the shore of Detroitriver, which is the outlet of Lake Hu-ron into Lake St. Clair, which lies mid-way between it and Lake Erie. Theriver is aWve a mile in breadth, anddivided into channels by Peach island,and l>elow by Grand Turkey island. The town stanils on an incliner trade is highly ad-van taceous. It contains the oJd state-house. cit\~-hall, a markethouse, elevmchurrhes, four banks, masonic-hall, aland-i>ffice, two orphan-asyuros. threefemale academies, several literary soci-eties, and nineteen thousand inhabit-ants. The fir
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . the shore of Detroitriver, which is the outlet of Lake Hu-ron into Lake St. Clair, which lies mid-way between it and Lake Erie. Theriver is aWve a mile in breadth, anddivided into channels by Peach island,and l>elow by Grand Turkey island. The town stanils on an incliner trade is highly ad-van taceous. It contains the oJd state-house. cit\~-hall, a markethouse, elevmchurrhes, four banks, masonic-hall, aland-i>ffice, two orphan-asyuros. threefemale academies, several literary soci-eties, and nineteen thousand inhabit-ants. The first s:eamboat arrived herein 151S. The gTv>^vth of this city has tak^ithe healthy form of expansion in everylandward direction, instead of the toocommon mode of accomm«.xlating an in-creasing population by filling up theinterstices bet\^~een old hooses with new. ii:i!;.i. IlK^il. :? : ?!;*? 520 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. ones, and putting one on the top ofanother. Nearly all the dwellings standhealthfully apart, and each surroundedby its little garden or grass and flowerplat, evincing a fondness for shrubberyand the minor poeti-y of nature. Manyof the streets are thickly set with rowsof young maples, in some instances tworows on one side of a wide avenue,which will in a few years add greatly tothe beauty and comfort of Detroit, es-pecially of its favorite promenades. Allaround are signs of giowth and pros-perity, to which the development of themineral wealth of the Lake Superiorregion has already, though in its infancy,given some impetus, and is destined togive far more. The only counterpoiseto this is the removal, last winter, ofthe state government to a township inIngham county, named Lansing, seventymiles northwest of Detroit, wherein isthe confluence of the Red Cedar creekwith Grand river, which latter, how-ever, does not
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