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Early Detroit
It contains a population of 70, 000 inhabitants, characterized by great activity and energy, a liberal public spirit, and a high order of intelligence. It presents to the most careless observer evidence of a growth steady yet rapid, and a prosperity at once great and solid. It has a commercial marine second to no place upon the lakes.
Its crowded docks, its busy streets, its thronged railroads, its capacious, expensive, and well-filled stores, its noisy workshops, all give evidence that it is the home of commercial
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