What to see in America . A. Lake Fueighteu Passing Detiioit Michigan 251 and during the Revolution they salHed forth from there ontheir forays and returned with many prisoners and 1805 a fire ravaged Detroit and left nothing exceptone house, a few stone chimneys, and several old peartrees. The city is eighteen miles from Lake Erie, on thebank of the Detroit River, which connects it with the smallLake St. Clair, and so with Lake Huron. Here the shippingof the lakes passing up and down the narrow waterwaycan be seen to exceptional advantage. Among the othercraft, you may see one of the
What to see in America . A. Lake Fueighteu Passing Detiioit Michigan 251 and during the Revolution they salHed forth from there ontheir forays and returned with many prisoners and 1805 a fire ravaged Detroit and left nothing exceptone house, a few stone chimneys, and several old peartrees. The city is eighteen miles from Lake Erie, on thebank of the Detroit River, which connects it with the smallLake St. Clair, and so with Lake Huron. Here the shippingof the lakes passing up and down the narrow waterwaycan be seen to exceptional advantage. Among the othercraft, you may see one of the aristocrats of the lake fleet — apassenger steamer, resembling in style and size the oceanliners. Of the freighters, the type of vessel that has the mostcurious individuality is the whaleback, a blunt-ended hulkwith rounded gunwales. Its appearance and its manner Ife Ak^. Steamers Pushing through Ice on Whitefish Bay of rooting and rolling about in the waves have gained it thenickname of the pig. Detroit is the most important auto-mobile manufacturing center in the world. To the north lies the beautiful Lake District of OaklandCounty. Seven miles from the city in that direction is thecurious Grotto of the Virgin, erected **in memory of the 252 What to See in America apparition at Lourdes ; and fifteen miles farther on is , a summer resort famed for its mineral miles west of Detroit is Ann Arbor, the homeof the richly endowed University of Michigan, with five 1 thousand students, onefifth of whom are was the capitalof the state until the seatof government was movedto Lansing in 183S. Lake Superior formsmost of Michigans north-ern boundary. It is thegreatest body of freshwater on the globe, andhas an average depth ofnine hundred feet, whileErie, the shallowest ofthe lakes, averages onlyeighty-four feet. Thecoa
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