DETROIT RIVER

or STRAIT OF ST. ATR, connecting Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie, flowing south and forming part of the boundary between Canada and the United States. It is about 25 miles in length, from a half to three miles in width, has a slow current and opposite the city of Detroit, Mich., forms @ capacious harbor suitable for ve els of the largest tonnage. Probably no river in the world carries so much traffic. village, on Main, Bavaria, Germany; scene of defeat of French in 1743 by Anglo-German army. salian prince, who, when Zeus sent a deluge to destroy the earth, escaped with his wife, Pyrrha, in ark; after the flood the pair were ordered to cast stones behind them, which turned into men and women.