DETROIT. 
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Dearly synonimous terms, at one period, in the 
United States, owing to the very great num¬ 
ber of duels that took place amongst them 
when cantoned at Grenville. 
About two-thirds of the inhabitants of De¬ 
troit are of French extraction; and the greater 
part of the inhabitants of the settlements on 
the river, both above and below the town, 
are of the same description. The former are 
mostly engaged in trade, and they all appear 
to be much on an equality. Detroit is a 
place of very considerable trade ; there are no 
less than twelve trading vessels belonging to it, 
brigs, sloops, and schooners, of from fifty to 
one hundred tons burthen each. The inland 
navigation in this quarter is indeed very ex¬ 
tensive, Lake Erie, three hundred miles in 
length, being* open to vessels belonging to the 
port, on the one side; and lakes Michigan and 
Huron, the first upwards of two hundred 
miles in length, and sixty in breadth, and the 
second, no less than one thousand miles in cir¬ 
cumference, on the opposite; not to speak 
of Lake St. Clair and Detroit River, which 
connect these former lakes together, or of the 
many large rivers which fall into them. The 
stores and shops in the town are well furnished, 
and you may buy fine cloth, linen, &c: and 
every article of wearing apparel, as good in 
their kind,, and nearly on as reasonable terms. 
