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LAKES. 
ameiucan lakes. 
division of the globe arc dislin- 
^ numerous and immense Jakes, tlie five 
*'0 A of which lie either wholly, or chiefly, la the 
provinces : these are the Lakes S'urERioR., 
JWi’ Ontario, Erie, and Michigan. These vast. 
|1 “"iARIo, JiRIE, ana 
‘o 6 s of fvesh water, which are neither put in 
> rirw* j . 1 • 1 I 1. El/-1<-ua or/s C11V1** 
K %n ivesLi waier, wiulu tuu aiv-u-^ivi. 
> nor alternately raised and sunk, by tides, are sup- 
|i CqU ^ritribute very considerably to the greater degree 
’n tire nortliern parts of America, than m 
'■'V ® parallels of latitude in Europe. They are situated 
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S ^U f ”***'-‘■3 Ui JttULUUt.^ IIA J 
itu/“‘'tit seven degrees of latitude, and fourteen of 
"^loolfo* or from 41® 35' to 4c/ north, and from 75 
West. 
Jhis lake superior. 
b 'lill?*' l^orth American Lake is justly entitl^ to 
!a U-,„wr. /-NtvUr Kf»/'an«:P it is tnG 
Stst pj Suished name it bears, not only because it is the 
• P^s« of fresh water i 3 the known world, sur- 
X^inr 
L ‘Mg i * — UI iresn waiei -. ..j uio « — , 
tnagniiude the Asiatic salt-water lake impropeidy 
>h-ted »tl^ p,,=man sea.’’ but because it has a 
I" tire Caspian sea," but because it has a 
levpl^^®*^ elevatiua than the other lakes of that country, 
t*''l>e Its waters being several hundred feet higher 
Hout St. I,aurence. Its circumference is estimated 
1 / an ."tteen hundred miles ; but it has been observed 
t03s."l«ll'gent navigator, Carver, that if it were 
kUx; rounds and the utmost extent of each of 
*^^*t®ti. it would exceed sixteen hundred!’’ 
t.A. 
StCil 
'■'tn shores. “ When it jivas calm,” he ob- 
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nearly twelve hundred miles on the norin 
'•«, <c YV licil it ^v*io vfniiAj 
'' tire snn shone bright, I could sit ui in.r 
the depth was upward of six fathoms, and 
■' Iht „.P“'nly soe huffe piles of stones at the bottom. 
in my 
, 5 e see huge piles of stones at the bottom. 
' ?' • an ) f‘™e was pure and transparent as the 
'I'at 1 tny canoe seemed as if it hniig .suspended in 
,isi (.1 “V canoe seemea as 11 u nung — .. 
’’ It "'US iitipossible to look attentively 
r tins lim.,..! ......ainm at thf*. rocks beneath, fu 
‘cut. impOSSlDle to lOUl^ , 
tltis limpid medium, at the rocks beneath, fur 
minutes, without feeling the head swim. 
