Excerpt from Story of the Great Lakes
This is the story of five Great Lakes in the midst of a vast forest. Four hundred years ago the country belonged to the Indians and the wild creatures: dark pine woods cushioned with fallen needles, clean oak groves, stands of hickory and walnut festooned with wild grape, shimmering birches, and maples whose sap the Indians boiled to sugar. Quick streams threaded the forest; grassy river meadows, loud with bird song, let in the sunlight. Above the soughing of the winds in the tree-tops came the soft measured rush of water falling 011 sand, or the roar of it breaking upon rocks.
Lake Superior was then, as now, the largest, coldest, and almost the deepest fresh-water lake in the world. At its southern end it flows into Georgian Ray. Lake Huron, and Lake Michigan. Through the Saint Clair River, Lake Huron pours into Lake Erie, and the overflow of all the Lakes thunders over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario and down the Saint Lawrence to the sea. It is the greatest inland waterway in the world - about 2,185 miles long.
In the geologic history of the American continent the Great Lakes were the last huge natural features to form.
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