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(Encyclopedia) Crystal Lake, city (2020 pop. 40,269), McHenry co., NE Ill., in a farming area; inc. 1874. Electrical components, tools, plastics, and machinery are man...

(Encyclopedia) Kinneret, Lake: see Galilee, Sea of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Kootenay Lake, Canada: see Kootenai, river. ...

(Encyclopedia) Volta, Lake, Ghana: see Volta, river. ...

(Encyclopedia) Tiberias, Lake: see Galilee, Sea of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Pleshcheyevo, Lake, Russia: see Pereslavl-Zalesski. ...

(Encyclopedia) Owens Lake: see under Owens, river, California. ...

(Encyclopedia) Buttle Lake, 11 sq mi (28 sq km), central Vancouver Island, SW British Columbia, Canada. It is the site of major zinc and copper deposits. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dollier de Casson, François fräNswäˈ dôlyāˈ də käsôNˈ [key], 1636–1701, priest and explorer in Canada, b. near Nantes, France. In 1657 he entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, and...

(Encyclopedia) Mille Lacs Lake mĭl lăks [key], 207 sq mi (536 sq km), E central Minn., N of Minneapolis. It drains into the Rum River. Sieur Duluth, a French explorer, visited (1679) the Ojibwas who lived on the l...