Lake
A lake is a large body of water, surrounded by land, and not directly connected to the ocean. Most lakes contain fresh water, but some that do not have outflowing rivers contain salt water, such as the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake. The largest lake in the world is the Caspian Sea, and the deepest is Lake Baikal in Siberia. The term lake is also used to describe bodies such as Lake Eyre which are dry most of the time but become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rain.Finland is known as The land of the thousand lakes.
see List of lakes
See also Physical geography.
The Lake Aircraft company manufactures light amphibious aircraft.
success. The writing of "Marmion" was begun in November, 1806.
the copyright, when he heard that the new poem.html">poem.html">poem was begun, though he
taking a fourth part of the venture, and John Murray said, "We both
the publication.html">publication of a new poem by Walter Scott." Scott, thirty-five
success, took more than usual pains, and thoroughly enjoyed the
Yarrow, many lines were written; and trotting quietly over the hills
many a grand gallop among these bracs when I was thinking of
the autumn of 1807, when Scott was out practising with the Light
from France, and of which Scott was quartermaster and secretary.
intervals between drill he would sometimes ride his charger at full
wave, while his mind was at work on such lines as -
With sword-sway and with lance's thrust;
Of sudden and portentous birth,
And fiends in upper air."
two thousand, in the form, then usual, of a quarto volume, priced at
octavo, of which there were twelve, between 1808 and 1825.
Francis Jeffrey, in the Edinburgh Review, complained of anti-
way that alienated Scott, not from Jeffrey, but from the Review, and
to another Review, the Quarterly, which he would found as a
more in accord. "Marmion" thus has a place in the story of the
"Marmion," Scott himself said at the time that it gave him "such a
the several Books are, in all Scott's verse, perhaps the poems that
of "Marmion," in fact there had been a plan for their publication as
poem, making "Marmion," too, a "Lay of the Last Minstrel," in the
Scott that "the personal appearance of the Minstrel who, though the
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