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.

The Great Mere is now drained and forms a meadow, but would originally have been a large lake covering around, dammed by the Tiltyard causeway.

He claims that the accounts of loch monsters have changed over the ages, originally describing creatures with a horse-like appearance ; they claimed that the " kelpie " would come out of the lake and turn into a horse.

The word " Michigan " originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the Ojibwa word mishigami meaning " great water ".

Snorra Edda says that ' the inlets in the lake correspond to the headlands in Zealand '; since this is much more true of Lake Vänern, the myth was probably originally about Vänern, not Mälaren.

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

Snorra Edda says that ' the inlets in the lake correspond to the headlands in Zealand '; since this is much more true of Lake Vänern, the myth was probably originally about Vänern, not Mälaren.

The lake originally supported a native deepwater fish community dominated by lake trout, which fed on a number of deepwater ciscos as well as sculpins and other native fishes.

The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named " Great Salt Lake City " by the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( known as the Mormon or LDS Church ) Brigham Young, who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.

US Geological Survey and US Fish & Wildlife researchers, originally studying selenium levels in the lake, discovered some of the highest levels of methyl-mercury they had ever seen, at 25 nanograms per liter of water.

The Oosterschelde was originally to be dammed and turned into a fresh water lake, leading to the loss of the saltwater ecosystem and, consequently, the harvesting of oysters.

The Shamrock Lakes ( a group of six lakes ) were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle.

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was born in Konstanz ( Constance ), originally had his airships built in a floating airship hangar on the lake which could be aligned with the wind to support the difficult starting procedure.

A small man-made lake ( originally four separate lakes, some being filled in ), called the Legion Lake, exists on the west side of the village.

The small town consists of a group of six lakes that were created between 1960 and 1965, and the first lake was originally intended to be a water supply for a farmer's cattle.

That river's spirits reject it too, and the body is driven east into " Losania ", where it is plunged in the bay of the lake near Lucerne, near Mont Pilatus – originally Mons Pileatus or " cloud-capped ", as John Ruskin pointed out in Modern Painters — whence the uncorrupting corpse rises every Good Friday to sit on the bank and wash unavailing hands.

When the lake originally formed it was warm, but today it is frozen over for most of the year.

Fall River was and is unique for the fact that it has two large lakes ( originally one lake ) on the eastern part of the city which is higher in elevation, with a river emptying out of the ponds flowing two miles through the heart city emptying out into the deep bay / estuary in the west part of the city.

The village was platted with 299 lots, and included almost all of the land bordered by the lake on the north, Smith Street on the east, Potter Road on the South, and West Street ( which originally ran due north from the current Potter Road-US-31 intersection ) on the west.

The actual lake of Big Lake was originally part of the Missouri River.

At the southern end of the lake is a swimming pool and tennis complex originally called the " Marine Pool ", that is constructed to resemble the deck of an ocean liner.

* Crystal Lake ( originally " Turtle Lake " until developed as a resort in the 1930s ) – A small lake in the northwest corner of New Lisbon.

* Gilbert Lake – A small lake inside Gilbert Lake State Park, originally a natural lake but enlarged several times as used to power various industries over the years it opened as a state park in 1929, and became an important CCC encampment that included a steel firetower.

* Lake Ozonia – a lake by the east town line, inside the Adirondack Park, and originally called " Trout Lake.