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Early Detroit
and from here radiated in every direction those coureurs de bois, who carried into the deep recesses of the forests that stood upon the banks of the Lake of the Woods and shaded the sources of the Mississippi, the blanket, the red cloth,, the glass beads, the powder, and the brandy, that formed the staple commodities of Indian trade.
The vast importance of this post was soon discovered by the French authorities, who established a fort on the south side of the strait, on the tipper point of this peninsula, known as Old Mackinaw, and it was success-
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