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Early Detroit
bitter enmity of the most powerful religious society the Christian world ever saw—then in the height of its power—success, in the highest sense of that term, becomes impossible. De la Motte had hopes to build upon the banks of the Detroit a large and flourishing colony, of which he should be the acknowledged founder and head. He left it, after ten years of indefatigable exertion, a feeble trading post struggling for existence, its fate being yet doubtful.
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