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Early Detroit
unable to find any authentic account of its being visited by white men previous to August, 1679, when the gallant La Salle sailed up our beautiful river in the ill-fated Griffin, built near Black Rock. The adventurous voyagers were enraptured with the scene. Father Hennepin, the historian of the voyage, thus describes it:
" On the tenth [of August, 1679], we came to an Anchor at the Mouth of the Straight which runs from the Lake Huron into' that of Brie. The eleventh, we went further into the Straight, and passed between two small Islands, which make one of the finest Prospects in the World.
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