DET 
OUR, in hese in Upper Canada, the en- 
ae into lake Huron from Muddy lake to the S. and W. 
of St. Joleph’s ifland. 
ETOUR ony i. on the ou fhore of lake Huron, a little 
to: td = of the ifles au Serpe 
OUR Point ie on the W. main, in the ftrait made by 
St. _Jotepi land. 
ETOUR des Anglos, or Englifo Turn, is a circular direc- 
tion nal the. river Miififfippi, fo that veflels can- 
not pafs it with the fame wind that conduéted them to it. 
The two forts and batteries at this aes on both fides of the 
river are more than fufficient to ftop the progrefs of an 
veffel. Dr. Cox, of New Jerfey, afcended the Miffiffippi to 
this place, A. D. 169%, took poffeflion, and called the 
country Carolina. It lies 18 miles below New Orleans, and 
87 above the Balize. The banks of the river are fettled and 
well cultivated from hence to ova Orleans, and there is a 
good road for carriages all the 
Detour, in the Afilitary a fignifies that circuitous 
route taken by a body ot tro oops, for the purpofe of 
evading obfervation, or of pafling round the. aus of an 
enemy, lo as to come’ by furprife againft fome weak part : 
or to force a paflage at a point on which the Gea hee 
Detours are ufually made in the night. time, and require 
he utmoft caution. Silence fhould, as much as poflible, be 
obferved, .a 
be felected ; the ordnance, nd any be nfed yf cae be light 
.and well fuppiied.with horfes, &c.; and n fhould be 
allowed to accompany, ai could, in an ‘ttle degree, 
retard the. movement, or require time for arrangement when 
arrived at the place of attack. 
Unhappily our allies have, in almoft every inftance, allowed 
-themfelves to be taken in flank, or even to be affaulted in 
-their rear, by negleGing-to take -pofitions which rendered 
the accefs by detour difficult: hence we have commonly. 
-witnefled, with pain, that many advantageous movements have 
been rendered aia indeed fatal, by the paleo of 
guarding againft this device: a device which we e = 
-expet an “oterping enem ote perpetually refort Oo, 
when his mai 
.tack by detour, at an es point of the enemy’s flank or 
‘Year, the utmoft precaution ought to be ufed to.arrive pre-. 
cifely at the appointed hour, and to diftraét the attention of 
fhould be fevere, and doubtful. 
th columns ; thereto the manceuvre mutt 
utioufly managed, and ought to be confided to 
‘the fuperintendance of officers Aikicealies for their courage, 
difcretion, and prefence of mind. 
DETRAHENS Quap ee s, in Azatomy, a name given 
by fome authors, alates a a toa mufcle, oe 
by the generality of anatomifts th ty{ma myodes 
by Albinus, asian bee 
gene. See 
DETR ANCHE’, eon the French Heralds, fignifies z a 
line bendwife, which does not come from the very dexter 
angle, but either from fome part of the upper edge, and 
thence falling athwart, or diagonally ; ; or form part of the 
gexter fide. They fay, tranché é, detranché, and retranché; to 
‘denote that there are two diagonal lines, makjng two pasts 
Dosa pine it alfo quadrats 
- river. 
eae a ran field- -piece : 
D E T 
tions in the efcutcheon, and coming from the angles, and 
- a third ie om fome of the other parts above mentioned. See 
RAN 
DETR RITUS, in Geology, is aterm ufed for the {mall 
fragments and matters formed by the eae bees Saga 
of the primeval mountains of the glo obe, by the Mofaic and 
other deluges, — according to the Geores of ie 
othe formation of the frata, whic 
DETROIT, in nares , a Lay town, the cracieal 
and the beft fortified in the cou N. He of the Ohio 
It is the chief town of. re oun territory 
of Wayne, and is fituated on the eet pee the ftrait 
St. Clair, or Detroit — between lake Erie cai ke St. 
Clair; 18 miles N. of the W. end of the former, and g miles 
below the latter. etre contains about 300 houfes, and , 
1200 inhabitants: it ftands contiguous to the river, on the 
top of the banks, which are here about 20 feet high. At the 
ottom of them there are very extenfive wharfs for the accom- 
modation of the fhipping, built of wood, fimilar to thofe in 
the Atlantic fea-ports. e town corfilts of feveral ftreets 
that run parallel to che river, which are interfe&ed by others 
at right angles. The ore are all very narrow, and not being 
wet weather 3 but for the accom- 
e foot-ways in moft of them, 
fquare logs, laid rane clofe to each other. 
The town is furrounded by a ftro 
there are four gates ; t 
the two others to the N. and S. fides of the town refpe&- 
ively. The gates are defended by ftrong block-houfes, and on 
the W. fide of the town is a {mall fort in the form of a {quare, 
with battions ] the angles, and having one fide which com- 
mands the riv At each of the corners of this fort is 
and thefe conititute the whole _ 
the ordnance at prefent in the place. The Britith kept 
the pane confit s of 300 men, 
acks. About 
e quartered in 
barr ; 
3° 
t two-thirds of ie inkabiasts of De- 
ae are of French .extration ; an greater part of 
the inhabitants of the foitlements on eae river, both above 
and below the town, are of the fame defcription. The 
former are moftly engaged in trade, and they all ap- 
ear be much on an equality. is i8 a place of 
very confiderable trade; there are no lefs than twelve 
trading veffels belonging te it, brigs, floops, and {choo oners, 
rom 50 to ico tons burthen each. The inland navigation 
n this quarter is indeed very extenfive ; lake Erie, 300 miles 
in an eing open to veffels belonging to the port, on 
ae one fide, and lakes Michigan and Huron, the firft up- 
of 200 miles in length, and 60 in breadth, and the 
‘do 
ee) 
fupplied with provifions of every deferipton, sa particu- 
cularly fifh, of which the moft efteemed is a of large 
trout, called the  Michillimakin,?® or white | fith, aie bemg 
caught moftly in the ftraits of that name. The want of Ane 
was, till of late, attended with great inconvenience : cons 
pate have been difcovered in various parts ‘of the co cate 
.they are now r beginning to manufaGture this article’ 
for 
