It is the kind we find in the bottom of a pond that has stood for many years, and it would seem that at some period all this prairie country with the black soil was the bottom of a great lake.
There is no doubt but that all of this region was the bottom of a great lake at some period when the ice was receding.
There are evidences of a great lake in the Red River country of the Northwest that is much larger than any of our greatest lakes.
They lived by a great lake, or the sea, and the mother told her girls never to go into the water there, for that, if they did, something would happen to them.
For as he hid, the water above, having gathered to a great lake, burst the dam, so that it all came down upon him at once and drowned him; nor was there any great weeping for him that ever I heard of.
And having come to a small path in a great forest, they followed it, till they came out by a very beautiful river; so fair a sight they had never seen, and so went onward till it grew to be a great lake.
Far away, very far in the north, there dwelt by the border of a great lake a man and his wife.
He, however, who desires ease and dislikes trouble, must attend only on such a patron who has composed his mind and by his placidity resembles a great lake of pure water in autumn.
The king accepted their proposal, and had a great lake, which by the splendour of its magnificence rivalled with Lake Mânasa, constructed in a short time in a place not too near the park which skirted his capital.
On one side of the mount is a great lake, abounding in geese and ducks, and all manner of water fowl, and having a most magnificent bridge; and the wood upon the mount is stored with all kinds of beasts and land birds.
In that plain there broke out a great lake at the time of the earthquake, and it came into my mind, that the earth opened her mouth to receive yet more blood of the Saracens.
The party were led safely to the margin of the "great lake" of the district--the elephant marsh that they had passed some time before while ascending the river!
Then he put back to examine a great lake of this river system, which the natives said existed south of Lake Moero.
And in mid place of the mount is a great lake in a full fair plain; and there is great plenty of water.
That city sits upon a great lake on the sea as doth Venice.
That city won the Turks from the Emperor of Constantinople; and it is a fair city and well walled on the one side, and on the other side is a great lake and a great river, the which is called Lay.
And before the minster of this idol, is a vivary, in manner of a great lake, full of water.
We are told that it stood on an island in the midst of a great lake called 'Parima'; but no such lake is now to be found in South America anywhere near the locality indicated.
These mountains that you have seen around us were all islands in a great lake--the lake of Parima.
At last she came before a great lake, which she had to sail across, and when she had done so she saw a great castle.
She came at length to a great lake, on which there was neither ship nor boat to be seen.
Close by it was a wilderness of trees and thicket; here the garden had been, and had stretched out to a great lake, which was now moorland.
It is also named Nyanja Pangono (Little Lake), while the elephant marsh goes by the name of Nyanja Mukulu (Great Lake).
He said that it came from the banks of a tributary of a great lake, and that it was their custom to melt the copper lumps which they found, and roll them into sheets with stones.
A river extends from the region of Nova Scotia into a great lake (Lago) near “Ochelaga,” the latter being nearly the only word on the map distinctly recalling the voyages of Cartier.
At last she came to a great lake, and, when she had crossed that, arrived at a beautiful castle.
She would have need of them, for she had to cross a high glass mountain, three cutting swords, and a great lake.
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