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Excerpt from A Daughter of New France: With Some Account of the Gallant Sieur Cadillac and His Colony on the Detroit
To-Day, as the voyager from the Atlantic States, having sailed over the white-capped Lake Erie, enters upon the broad, shining expanse of the Detroit: River, the Gateway of the North-West, he can scarcely fail to be impressed by the singular atmosphere of stillness which hangs over the Strait and invests the scene with a charm that has in it a quality of mystery.
Silently the commerce of the world passes through these Gates, - a tonnage greater, it is said, than that which annually leaves our seaboard ports; silently, save when in a deep-voiced call one heavily laden vessel greets or turns aside for another. The din of the city's marts, of the many industries along the strand, dies away at the waters' edge.
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