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LEFT DETROIT 337 DEUTERONOMY Car Company, the Hudson Company, the Paige-Detroit Company, and others. Dur- ing the war the city developed a great shipbuilding industry which has been continued and vessels are made not only for inland waters but for ocean travel. There are over 700 miles of streets, the greater part of which are paved. The principal streets are laid with brick or asphalt. The streets in general cross at right angles, but these are intersected by several broad avenues radiating from the Grand Circus, a semi-circular park of 5^/^ acres in the center of the city. Woodward Avenue, extending througn this, divides the city into nearly equal portions. There is an attractive system of parks, including an island park known as Belle Isle. This contains 707 acres, and lies in the center of the Detroit river, about 3 miles from the heart of the city. There are many handsome public buildings, including the Wayne County Court House, the City Hall, Post- ofRce, and Detroit Athletic Club House, and the Y. M. C. A. building and several hospitals. Many of the churches are also notable for the beauty of their architecture. The Museum of Art con- tains a library and valuable collections of classical art, modern paintings, furni- ture, etc. The educational system is maintained according to the highest modern stand- ards. There are 160 public and 75 private schools^ including 10 high schools, and 4 junior high schools. In connection with the school system are operated three college units, including a medical school, a normal school, and a junior college. These eventually will comprise the Uni- versity of the City of Detroit. In ad- dition to the public schools there are 60 parochial schools and numerous private institutions. The city spends approxi- mately $6,000,000 to maintain this school system. The city is notable for a large number of handsome business buildings, hotels and theaters. Detroit was founded by the French explorer Cadillac, in 1701. After the site was chosen, a palisade inclosure was erected and called Fort Pontchar- train. The name Detroit is after the French "d'etroit" meaning the strait, and was so called because of its situation on the narrow strait now known as Detroit river, connecting Lake St. Clair with Lake Erie. The French ruled the region until 1760, when they were superseded by the English, who in turn held it until 1796, when it was conquered by General Wayne. The English again assumed control in 1813, but Commodore Perry's victory of Lake Erie gave the entire territory to the United States. The city has shown a remarkable increase in population in recent years. The figures are as follows: (1900) 285,705; (1910) 465,766; (1920) 993,678. DETROIT RIVER, or STRAIT of ST. CLAIR, a river or strait of North Amer- ica, which runs from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie. It is 28 miles long, and of sufficient depth for the navigation of large vessels. It is about three-fourths of a mile wide opposite Detroit and en- larges as it descends. DETTINGEN (det'ting-en), a village of Bavaria, on the Main, 10 miles N. W. of AschafFenburg; is noted as the scene of a battle during the war of the Aus- trian Succession, when, on June 27, 1743, George II. of England, command- ing English, Hanoverians, and Austrians, defeated the larger French army under the Due de Noailles. This was the last time a king of England took the field in person. DEUCALION (dii-ka'li-un), the son of Prometheus and Clymere. Zeus having resolved to destroy the human race by a deluge, Deucalion built a ship, in which he and his wife, Pyrrha, escaped. When the ship finally rested on Mount ^Etna, they resolved to offer up sacrifices to the gods for the repeopling of the world; thereupon, they went to the sanctuary of Themis for this purpose, and were told by the goddess that they must throw behind them the bones of their mother as they departed from the temple. Un- derstanding by the "bones of their mother" the stones of the earth, they obeyed the injunction, and from those thrown by Deucalion sprang up men, and from those by Pyrrha women. Deu- calion built his first dwelling place at Opus, or Cynus. He is also said to have founded the sanctuary of Olympian Jove at Athens, and in later ages his tomb in the vicinity was long pointed out. Deu- calion had by Pyrrha several children, Hellen, Amphictyon, Protogeneia, and others. DEUTERONOMY (Gr. deiiteronomion, the "second" or "repeated law"), the Greek name of the fifth book of the Pentateuch. It presents the third and latest phase of the development of the Mosaic legislation. Its great aim is to check the encroachments of idolatry, and to concentrate the national worship in the great sanctuary at Jerusalem, es- pecially at the three annual festivals. It is instinct with the prophetic spirit, and lays stress on the great command- ment to love and fear God with the whole heart as the sum of the whole law.