Detroit River
or STRAIT of ST.
Lake Erie. It is 28 miles long, and of large vessels. It is about three-fourths of a mile wide opposite Detroit and ensufficient depth for the navigation of larges as it descends. of Bavaria, on the Main, 10 miles N. W. of Aschaffenburg; is noted as the scene DETTINGEN (det'ting-en), a village of a battle during the war of the Austrian Succession, when, on June 27, 1743, George II. of England, command- 1743, George II. of England, commanddefeated the larger French army under defeated the larger French army under time a king of England took the field in the Duc de Noailles. This was the last person.
Prometheus and Clymere. Zeus having
DEUCALION (dü-ka'li-un), the son of resolved to destroy
DEUCALION (dü-ka'li-un), the son of deluge, Deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife, Pyrrha, escaped. When oy the human race by a he and his wife, Pyrrha, escaped. When gods for the repeopling of the world; thereupon, they went to the sanctuary they resolved to offer up sacrifices to the of Themis for this purpose, and were told by the goddess that they must throw behind them the bones of their mother mother" the stones of the earth, they as they departed from the temple. Unobeyed the injunction, and from those mother" the stones of the earth, they and from those by Pyrrha women. Deucalion built his first dwelling place at Opus, or Cynus. He is also said to have founded the sanctuary of Olympian Jove the vicinity was long pointed out. Deucalion had by at Athens, and in later ages his tomb in others. the vicinity was long pointed out. Deu- at Athens, and in later ages his tomb in by Pyrrha several children, Detroit was founded by the French site was chosen, a palisade inclosure was erected and called Fort Pontchar- the "second" or "repeated law"), the train. The name Detroit is after the Greek name of the fifth book of the others. calion had by Pyrrha several children, Hellen, Amphictyon, Protogeneia, and French "d'étroit" meaning the strait, and Pentateuch. It presents the third and was so called because of its situation on the narrow strait now known as Detroit Mosaic legislation. Its great aim is to river, connecting Lake St. Clair with check the encroachments of idolatry, and latest phase of the development of the Lake Erie. The French ruled the region to concentrate the national worship in until 1760, when they were superseded the great sanctuary at Jerusalem, esby the English, who in turn held it until pecially at the three annual festivals. 1796, when it was conquered by General It is instinct with the prophetic spirit, Wayne. The English again assumed and lays stress on the great command- 1796, when it was conquered by General pecially at the three annual festivals. victory of Lake Erie gave the entire whole heart as the sum of the whole territory to the United States. The law.
DEUTZIA DEUTZIA (named after John Deutz, a Dutch naturalist), a genus of shrubs, natives of the East Indies, belonging to the natural order Philadelphaceæ, or syringas. The leaves are used in Japan for polishing purposes, and their inner bark for poultices.
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