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Oneida Lake

American  

noun

  1. a lake in central New York. 20 miles (32 km) long; 5 miles (8 km) wide.


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"Canal people are like a family," he says as the ship sails across 21-mile-long Oneida Lake and swings north into the Oswego River.

From Time Magazine Archive

It lay on the traffic-road to Oneida Lake, and was considered a strong point of vantage.

From The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by H. H. (Hugh Hornby) Langton

But the most common route was by way of the Hudson and the Mohawk Rivers, through Oneida Lake and down the Oswego River to Lake Ontario.

From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education

And now we saw them!—three red-coat dragoons riding very carelessly westward on this wide, well-trodden road which now I knew must lead to Oneida Lake.

From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Having reached Fort Schuyler, formerly Fort Stanwix, they crossed over to Wood Creek, which empties into Oneida Lake, and affords the water communication with Ontario.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

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