There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

This crisis was addressed in 1992-93 by construction of a tunnel to divert water into the lake from the Arpa River.

The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.

With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake.

Anāsāgar Lake, this historic man-made lake was built by Maharaja Anaji ( 1135-1150 AD ).

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

Following the defeat of Gog, the last judgment begins: " The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

This was to be achieved by draining the Fucine lake, which would have the added benefit of making the nearby river navigable year-round.

A tunnel was dug through the lake bed, but the plan was a failure.

The draining of the lake was revisited many times in history, including by Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Middle Ages.

However, other sources suggest that the only time the entire lake froze over in the 20th century was in 1912.

Lake Voulismeni at the coast, at Aghios Nikolaos, was formerly a sweetwater lake but is now connected to the sea, in Lasithi.

But while in a small boat in a lake or bay in the mid 60s, he leaned over the side, and his notebook fell out of his breast pocket into the water, where it was lost forever.

Total production of marine, river, and lake fisheries in 2003 was estimated at 222, 965 tons, all but 5, 000 tons from inland waters.

The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.

The Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships and was connected to the Liffey by the Poddle.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Adaptive radiations often occur as a result of an organism arising in an environment with unoccupied niches, such as a newly formed lake or isolated island chain.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

The Dead Sea is an endorheic lake located in the Jordan Rift Valley, a geographic feature formed by the Dead Sea Transform ( DST ).

Initial extrapolations placed Cooper's landing area on the southernmost outreach of Mount St. Helens, a few miles southeast of Ariel, Washington, near Lake Merwin, an artificial lake formed by a dam on the Lewis River.

A Turlough is a unique type of seasonal lake found in Irish karst areas which are formed through the annual welling-up of water from the underground water system.

The Zambezi river is the boundary between the two Rhodesias, and so the dam itself and the lake it formed both straddle the boundary.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

In the Middle Ages, the lake formed a vital part of the Trade Route from the Varangians to the Greeks, with the Norse emporium at Staraya Ladoga defending the mouth of the Volkhov since the 8th century.

By 2008 there were at least six institutions monitoring lake water health: 1 ) In 2002 the Conservation Law Foundation appointed a " lakekeeper " who criticizes the state's pollution controls, 2 ) Friends of Missisquoi Bay was formed in 2003, 3 ) the Lake Champlain Committee, 4 ) Vermont Water Resources Board

The largest and oldest caldera segment appears to have formed as a single, large lava lake.

* Lacustrine plain, a plain that originally formed in a lacustrine environment, that is, as the bed of a lake.

Other large lakes include Malta ( an artificial lake on the lower Cybina, formed in 1952 ), Jezioro Strzeszyńskie ( Strzeszyn Lake ) on the Bogdanka, and Rusałka, an artificial lake further down the Bogdanka, formed in 1943.

At the time it was formed, Gatun Lake was the largest man-made lake in the world.

World famous Barro Colorado Island, which was established for scientific study when the lake was formed and is today operated by the Smithsonian Institution, is the largest island on Gatun Lake.

Karakul ( Tajikistan ) | Karakul is a lake formed inside a meteor crater in Tajikistan.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Geologically, the lake was formed after the last ice age about 10, 000 years ago ; when the ice melted, the entire width of Sweden was covered in water, creating a strait between Kattegat and the Gulf of Bothnia.

When glacial lakes are formed there is very little movement of the water that makes the lake, and these eroded soils settle on the lake bed.

A new lake eventually formed on a much higher elevation.