Lake
a large sheet or expanse of water entirely surrounded by land, and having no direct or immediate communication with any sea, ocean, or river, or having communication only by means of rivers. The largest fresh-water lake on the globe is Lake Superior, in North America . It is 400 miles long, 160 miles wide at its greatest breadth, and has an area of 32,000 square miles.
LAKE or ALBERT, NYANZA, a large lake in British East ALBERT Africa, the most northerly of five that LAKE EDWARD are situated in a great valley that extends for a thousand miles to Zambezi river. Its length is about 100 miles and it is surrounded on every side by towering mountains, some of whose peaks are 7,000 feet above sea-level. Discovered in 1864 and named after Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. the parish-seat of Calcasieu parish. It