Near the Campus Martius is the Public Library

with 150,000 volumes. In front of the City Hall stands a magnificent Sol: diers’ and Sailors’ Monument. Othe: points of interest are Fort Wayne, the Bagley Fountain, Evacuation Day Tablet, the old home of General Grant apd relics of Perry’s victory on Lake rie. A tunnel under the Detroit river connecting the city with Windsor Canada, was completed in 1910, at a cost of $10,000,000. The site of Detroit was permanently settled by French colonists under De la Motte Cadillac in 1701, when Fort Pont chart rain was built as a defense against Indians. Owing to its great strategic importance it has mever been without-a military garrison since 1701. It has changed its flag five times; was at times under French and English dominion prior to, the Revolutionary War; has owed allegiance to three different sovereigns; has been besieged by Indians twice; captured in war once; totally consumed by fire once; and has been the scene of 12 ma acres and 50 battles. The English took po e ion of it in 1760, and erected (1778) Fort Lernoult, the site of which is now in the heart of the city. It was ceded to the United States by the peace of 1783, but po e ion was not taken till Gen. Anthony Wayne established himself here in 1796; General Hull surrendered it to the British in 1812; and the Amer- -icans regained po e ion after Com- ‘modore Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, in 1813. The present city was laid out in 1806; incorporated as a city in 1815; and was the capital of the State