Lake Superior

Lake bordered by Ontario, Canada, to the north and east; Michigan and Wisconsin to the south; and Minnesota to the west.

Notes for Lake Superior

The largest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Superior is the largest, highest in elevation, and deepest of the Great Lakes.

Unfortunately, the good language pruners of Lake Superior State University missed one.
Peyton Manning and Tom Brady Don’t Control Their Own Legacies | Evin Demirel | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The rocky northern shore of Lake Superior north of Duluth, Minnesota—it looks like the Maine seacoast.
Charles Baxter: How I Write | Noah Charney | August 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Alempigon improperly written for Nipigon, a small lake north of Lake Superior.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft
Ontonagon; a considerable river of Lake Superior, noted from early times, for the large mass of native copper found on its banks.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft
The words have been taken down from a young Chippewa warrior of Lake Superior, of the name of Che che-gwy-ung.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. Schoolcraft

One day the whole tribe flew across Lake Superior to attack a fleet of ships bringing sugar to Paul's camps.
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan | W. B. Laughead
While still a pup he broke through four feet of ice on Lake Superior and was drowned.
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan | W. B. Laughead

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