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Early Detroit

It would have been particularly pleasing to me to have dwelt at length upon a brighter page in our history, upon that period that followed the seige of Detroit in 1712 to the expiration of the French dominion in 1760. Although but few facts of this period remain to gratify the economist, enough remains to enable us, with but little aid from the fancy, to form a picture of the social condition of the time. The country bordering on the river was esteemed the loveliest portion of Canada.
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