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SOURCES EARLY MICHIGAN HISTORY
must appear to this honorable house from its situation it can never become of any great importance as a settlement. The Falls of Niagara are an unsurmountable bar to the transportation of such rude materials as the produce of the land. As the farmers around Detroit, therefore, will have only their own settlement for the consumption of their produce, such a confined market must greatly impede the progress of settlement and cultivation for ages to come. " He further remarks: "During 20 years that I have resided in that Province, I don't recollect a single instance of a
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