Bear Lake
GREAT, an extensive sheet of fresh water in the Mackenzie district of Canada, between about 65° and 67° 32′ N. lat.; and under the 120th degree of W. long.; of irregular shape; area about 14,000 square miles. The water is very clear, and the lake abounds in fish. Bear Lake river, the outlet at the S. W. extremity of Great Bear Lake, runs S. W. for 70 miles and joins the Mackenzie river.
Mackenzie river. runs S. W. for 70 miles and joins the 32 provinces into which France was divided, and now forming the greatest portion of the department of Basses- Pyrénées. The inhabitants are chiefly Gascons, with Pyrénées. The inhabitants are chiefly portion of the department of Bassesa strong infusion of Gascon dialect. Béarn was a portion of BEATTIE Aquitania under the Romans, and, after siderable importance. From the interruling dukes, it was a country of considerable importance. From the intermarriage of the ruling family, the counts of Foix, with that of Navarre, sprang the French monarch, Henry IV., up in Béarn, was derisively called Le who, Béarnois. ho, because he was born and brought States, 400 miles long; rises in the N.