Directory of the City of Detroit: And Register of Michigan, for the Year 1845 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Directory of the City of Detroit: And Register of Michigan, for the Year 1845 The site of the city is an elevation of about thirty feet above the level of the river. The plan of the town, Upon the river and for 1200 feet back is rectangular, in the rear of this triangular, the streets are from fifty to 200 feet wide. Four roads, constructed by the general government, termin ate in the centre of the city the Chicago, leading to Illinois, the Saginaw, to the head of Saginaw Bay the Fort Gratiot, to the foot of Lake Huron, and the Grand River, to Lake Michigan at the mouth of Grand River. There is, also, a United States road leading from Detroit to Ohio. Detroit River is about 25 miles long, average breadth, 1 1-10 mile average depth, six fathoms, current, two miles an hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.