Lake of the Woods
a large lake of North America, studded with numerous wooded islands; lat. 49° N., lon. 95° W.; length nearly 100 miles, circuit about 300 miles. It is mostly in Ontario, but extends also into Manitoba and Minnesota. It is fed by the Rainy river, and drained by the Winnipeg.
LAKES (originally prepared from lac, whence the name), pigments or colors formed by precipitating animal or vegetable coloring matters from their solutions chiefly with alumina or oxide of tin. Cochineal and madder lakes are the only ones used by artists. The former are prepared with COCHINEAL (q. v.) and al alumina and according to their shade of red, or purple red, are known as carmine, crimson lake, scarlet lake, purple lake and Florentine lake. These were formerly much employed by water color painters, but they have not much stability. The madder pigments of this kind, called rose madder or madder lake and madder carmine, are quite permanent. There are several yellow lakes made, but they are unstable. Paperstainers and decorators use several pink lakes.
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