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Detroit River   /dɪtrˈɔɪt rˈɪvər/   Listen
Detroit River

noun
1.
A short river flowing from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the border between the United States and Canada; one the busiest inland waterways in the world.





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"Detroit River" Quotes from Famous Books



... waters, in consequence, have the green color of the sea in shallow bays and harbors. It is connected with Lake Huron by the St. Clair River and Lake, a shallow expanse of water, twenty miles wide, and by Detroit River. ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various
... a large triangular peninsula, surrounded on the east, north and west, by lakes, and on the south by the States of Ohio and Indiana. Lake Erie, Detroit river, lake St. Clair, and St. Clair river, lie on the east for 140 miles; lake Huron on the north-east and north, the straits of Mackinaw on the extreme north-west, and lake Michigan on its western side. Its area is about 40,000 ...
— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck


Words linked to "Detroit River" :   Great Lakes State, river, Wolverine State, Michigan, mi


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