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Early Detroit
unconquerable perseverance and his great ability that it continued to exist at all. Unexpected obstacles had encountered him at every step. The difficulty of establishing a colony in the very heart of the new world, amongst a savage population, a thousand miles from the sea
coast, to which access can only be obtained by canoe navigation, interrupted by portages, is, under the most favorable circumstances, an undertaking of great magnitude and difficulty; but when, in addition to those difficulties which are natural and inevitable, such an undertaking meets the opposition of the government upon whose fostering care it relies, and encounters the steadv
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