 | Elijah Parish - 1810 - Počet stránok 410
...more than 20 broad. East of this lie several lakes in a chain extending to lake Superior. This lake is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is ISf or 1600J miles in circuit, extending from lat. 46° to 48° 30' north, and from long. 9" to 16°... | |
 | 1833 - Počet stránok 438
...along their banks. You can readily find Lake Superior on your map. This lake, as you probably know, is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is 400 miles in length, and 100 at its greatest breadth. Its shores are rocky and A LAKE. uneven, and... | |
 | Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1852 - Počet stránok 482
...is 100 miles in length and 500 feet deep. The Lake Superior is the westernmost of the whole chain, and is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It discharges its waters through the strait of St. Mary into Lake Huron, which receives also the waters... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1861 - Počet stránok 364
...the truth. Even with regard to European lakes, the authorities in some cases differ. * Lake Superior is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It Is equal in extent to the whole of Ireland. c Several extensive lakes have been recently discovered in... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1862 - Počet stránok 432
...the truth. Even with regard to European lakes, the authorities in some cases differ. * Lake Superior is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is equal in extent to the whole of Ireland. ° Several extensive lakes have been recently discovered in... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1874 - Počet stránok 502
...the truth. Even with regard to European lakes, the authorities in some cases differ. h Lake Superior is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is equal in extent to the whole of Ireland. c Several extensive lakes have been recently discovered in... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - Počet stránok 176
...world, and by the river St. Lawrence, which conveys the water of those lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. s The St. Lawrence is first known as the St. Louis,...receives the waters of the United States Lake Michigan, and discharges its waters into the comparatively shallow Lake Erie. The Niagara River, with its rapids... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - Počet stránok 174
...The St. Lawrence is first known as the St. Louis, which rises in the centre of the continent and runs into Lake Superior. This lake is as long as England...on the south, and high rocky cliffs on the north. The river, called here St. Mary, connects Quebec, from near Point-deB-Pi'res. Lake Superior with Lake... | |
 | Alvah Littlefield Sawyer - 1911 - Počet stránok 670
...olden Lake Superior was discovered by the French explorer Brulc in 1629r and is appropriately named. It is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is 350 miles long, 160 miles wide and has an area of 31,800 square miles — exceeding the combined size... | |
 | Helena Crumett Lee ("Mrs. J. C. Lee.") - 1913 - Počet stránok 268
...which -is not steep. With the exception of our own Great Lakes and Victoria Nyanza in Africa, Baikal is the largest body of fresh water in the world. It is as long as England, and in some places the water is over a mile deep. Lake Baikal is a part of the... | |
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Louis, which rises in the centre of the continent and flows into Lake Superior. This lake is as long as England (420 miles), and is the largest body of fresh water in the world. 
