Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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quaintness. The flag flying over it has been changed five times in the followingorder: French, British, American, British, American. And it has been the scene of onesurrender, twelve massacres, and fifty battles. It is a veteran town compared to Cleve-land and Buffalo. It was already a century old when they were born. The central figure of Detroit history is Pontiac, the great Ottawa chieftain. Hewas the king of the river—the only Indian who, in the history of America, provedhimself a match for the white man in far-reaching sagacity—the only Indian who suc-ceeded in forming and maintaining powerful combinations among the discordant tribes.The masterpiece of Pontiacs life was a conspiracy to capture simultaneously on a fixedday all the British posts in the West, twelve garrisoned forts, extending from Niagara toPittsburg, along the lake-shore, and on as far as the Mississippi. In such a wide fieldmany tribes must act, and many clashing interests must be reconciled; and yet such was
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GLANCE AT DETROIT FROM THE CITY HALT- THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE. 549 the personal influence of Pontiac that the plan was carried out: nine of the posts weretaken upon the same day, and their garrisons massacred. Detroit made a successful re-sistance, owing to the warning of an Indian girl—the Pocahontas of the West. Pcntiac,however, besieged the little town, and would have conquered it had not a letter arrivedfrom the French commander-in-chief, stating that peace had been declared between GreatBritain and France, and ordering an immediate cessation of hostilities. Above the city the Detroit River curves to the eastward and enters Lake St. Clair.Here are long lines of lumber-barges with their tugs, schooners with their raking masts,leaning far over under a cloud of canvas, brigs with their high-lifted, aggressive sails,scows with their yellow w^ngs spread widely to the breeze, and steamers coming up andpassing them all in the evening race to the Flats, through whose narrow canal o

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