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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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rapidity; and the only figure that stands out clearly is mad Anthony Wayne,called by the Indians the Wind, because he drives and tears every thing before him.General Waynes decisive battle was fought on the Maumee, in 1794. A few miles beyond Maumee Bay the coast turns sharply to the north ; the BlackSwamp is left in the southwest; and the boundary-line of Michigan is passed. . Theeastern end of Lake Erie slopes to a point at Buffalo, both shores coming toward eachother, and making a natural gate-way for the Niagara River. But the western end isblunt and unyielding. The Detroit River has no gate-way; it comes unexpectedly intothe lake from a broad shore; its mouth is clogged with islands; and there is nothingto indicate the entrance of a grand strait, which in its peculiar beauty has no peerthroughout a chain that holds the Saut Ste. Marie, the St. Clair, the Niagara, and theSt. Lawrence. The northward-sloping coast of Michigan—sixty miles in length, between 544 PICTURESQUE AMERICA.
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the Ohio boundary and thecity of Detroit—is a green,fertile shore, with numeroushttle rivers flowing throughit, and a more gentle as-pect than the north andsouth coast - lines of Ohioand Canada. This territoryhas had two distinct settle-ments—the French, whichis ancient; and the Ameri-can, which is comparativelymodern. The French hadhere their little domiciles acentury and a half ago, butit was not until 1830 thatAmerican emigration flowedfreely into Michigan Terri-tory ; and Ohio had a set-tled population of New-England colonists, withtheir schools and churches,and had sent her pioneersinto Indiana and Illinois,while the Detroit shoreremained wholly French.The unextinguished Indiantitles, the foreign ideas ofthe inhabitants, and thebarrier of the Black Swamplying in the way, kept theemigrants from this lovelyland. In the mean time, theFrench settlers remainedundisturbed in their littlehouses along the shore; for,according to a law of theseigneiirie, each lot hada narrow water-fro

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