/ 
their daughters, ever ready to difpofe of them, p 
and to 
ben extinguiied by gilts or grants to the beara or 
d fo much m 
DET 
for themfelves. Some of the {prings in the weftern country 
throw up water meds to yield feveral hundred buthels 
in the courfe of one k, 
ere is a large Rona Catholic church in the town of 
Detroit, and another on the oppofite fide, called t 
ch i d to th 
ro 3 
cael Ww of one tribe or the other; 
amongft them you fee numberlefs old fquaws leading about 
ro tempore, 
to the Aaa bidder, At night all the Indians, except 
fuch as get admittance into private houfes, and remain there 
quietly, Sales ed out of t 
them. Thec 
able nie ie eu ie town. The fettiements extend os 
as far as lake ns but beyond the river La Trenche, 
which falls into ere St. Clair, they are ee very ae 
along the fhores. The banks of the river La Tr 
been aed by the 
d Detroit is uncommonly flat, and none of 
the rivers a a fall fufficient for turning even a grift-miil : 
their corn therefore is ground by wind-mills. The foil of the 
country bordering upon Detroit river is rich though light, 
and it produces good crops both of Indian corn and wheat. 
For eight miles below, and about the fame diftance above 
fort Detroit, on both fides of the river, the country is di- 
vided into regular and well cultivated plantations ; ; and from 
the contiguity of the farmers’ houfesto each other, they ap- 
common difor ers. mmers are intenfely hot, Fah. 
renheit’s thermometer often rifing above 1c0; and yet 
winter feldom Pe es over Bitton fnow remaining on tie 
ground for two or three 
y the treaty a Grenville ts Aug. 1795, the Indians have 
ceded : ae United States the port of Detroit, and all the 
of it, of which the Indian title has 
Englith 
ws 
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gove more land is to be annexed to 
Dacia as shall tbe comprehended between Rofine river on 
the a lake _ St. Clair o the N.; anda line, t 
fort was delivered e the 
a and Detroit river. The 
It lies 18 miles 
Britith 3 in July, 1796, according to treaty. 
N. of 
ake Erie, 724 . by W. from Philadelphia, N. 
lat. 42°40". W. long. 82° 50" Weld’s Elie through 
North America, vol. ii. Morfe. See Maro 
Derroir river, or Strait St. Clair, “tues from 
lake St. Clair, and enters che weft end of lake Erie 
forming part of the boundary between the United 
States and Upper Canada. In afcending it, its en- 
trance is more than three miles wide, but it is perceptibly 
diminithed : fo that oppofite to the fort, 18 miles from lake 
nel of the ftrait is gentle, and wide and deep enough for fhip- 
ping of great pal Leider it is incommoded by feveral 
iflands, one o more than feven miles in lengt 
The foil of thefe ‘Wflands is "Fettile, and by their fituation 
erie an agreeable “appearance. The length of the river is 
chiefly from the N. W.; 
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D‘E T 
Vike pel va Clora, Gueriere, Detro' t, and Huron rivers, 
85 and an orchard adjoins 
e ales are numerou 
improvements extenfive. t 
fom, the prof{pe¢t as you ia through the {trait is as delight- 
ful, perhaps, as any in th rid. 
ETROIT, le Petit, lies on ie Ottawa river, in Upper Ca- 
nada, below the upper main forks of the Ottawa river. 
Dereoit, in a Military —— relates to thofe fitua- 
ations which appear to be the n 
defence fuffices to keep the eels perfe&tly fecure 
a wlede-fac (i.e. literally the 
f the bag,) it may be eafily excluded from further 
at pleafure ; atteries (or flankings) ei 
would prevent the occupancy of thofe pofts a might keep 
the embouchure c clofely uarded, and prevent the pene 
column from deploying into line as the ground might a 
of enlarging the front. 
Nothing can be more favourable than taking poft in a 1 cul- 
de-fac, whofe entrance is a detroit. When the pofition can be 
maintained by means of abundant ftores, both of provifion and 
f ammunition; and when the fituation is airy and healthy 5 
but, on the other hand, nothing can be more hazardous, in- 
deed, more entirely fatal, than the retreat to fuch, when either 
provifion, or ammunition, is likely to fall hort. Io fuch 
cafes a furrender muft take place ; a8, on two or three occa- 
fions happened to the Romans, who were compelled to lay 
down their arms, and to pafs under the yoke. A good ge- 
neral, who has confidence in bis troops, will, however, do 
his Geman to force the paflage | of the detroit, if it- be in the 
hands of the enem 
in pot may 
oppofers, oe in all probability, obtain either a 
comple releafe, o 
under his pound . 
a 
the manner in which the sient 
country, as well as ne river contracts, and forms a very 
limited debouchure from the upper countr 
DETRUSOR Uriya, in Anatomy, the mufcular covers 
ing of the bladder. The membranous receptacle, which 
receives the urine fecreted in the kidnies, is covered by athin. 
ftratum of mufcular fibres, which ferve the purpofe of ex: 
pelling the contained fluid, when it has sae arinaty to a 
certain quantity. This mufeular covering o urinary 
bladder has been defcribed as a mufele by oe pers 
who have diftinguithed it from its office, by the name of de- 
trufor urine. articular account of it, fee 
IDNEY, 10 which article the ‘whole of the urinary organs 
will be confidered. 
DETTELB BACH, in Cay, a {mall town of Ger. 
many, in the ae duchy of Wurzburg, in oa circle of 
Franconia. It is feated on the river Mayn. Its church is 
celebrated fora eee image of the Virgin. . : 
DETTEZ, 
