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 lake was built in the 1930s to store water for an electricity generator ( central of Coghinadordza ), and it covered an ancient Roman bridge as well as an ancient archaeological site of the Nuragici people.

However the greater proportion soaked into the desert or evaporated en route to the lake leaving less than 4 km < sup > 3 </ sup > ( 0. 24 cu mi ) in the lake which covered an area of or 12 % of the lake.

Heavy rain in early March filled the southern end of the lake, with the north of the usually dry salt pan about 75 per cent covered with water continuing to inflow from local creeks.

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.

Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, which would put it among the oldest lakes in North America.

The lake is the largest remnant of Lake Bonneville, a pluvial lake which covered much of western Utah in prehistoric times.

Since the water level of the lake can vary greatly between years, what may be considered an island in a high water year may be considered a peninsula in another, or an island in a low water year may be covered during another year.

Referring to the floodplain as a lake may be misleading, as less than half of Lake Chad is covered by water through an entire year.

She resolved to kill the child, knowing it was Gwion, but when he was born he was so beautiful that she couldn't, so she had him put into a hide covered basket and thrown into the lake, river, or sea, depending on which version of this tale it is.

Rancho Laguna de la Merced was acres and covered the area around a lake of the same name.

The asylum grounds covered an area of about sixty-five acres, immediately adjacent to Burnet Park, the most of which was high land, overlooking the city and lake.

The southern mere, still visible today, had its origins in a smaller, natural lake ; once dammed, it covered and had an island with a dovecote built on it.

The gardens were opened in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and contained a large lake, which covered, and what can only be described as a small early version of a roller coaster, known as a switchback ( an alternative general term for a roller coaster ).

At its greatest extent, it may have covered as much as, larger than any currently existing lake in the world ( including the Caspian Sea ) and approximately the size of the Black Sea.

The failure resulted in some of material, including the banks of the river and the canal, slipping into the workings, which then flooded to a depth of, creating a lake which covered.

This is the meaning of the logo: the keep " Ter Heide " is the symbol for the cultural heritage of Rotselaar, the field tracks symbolise the rural aspects of the municipality and the agriculture, the blue river is the symbol for the three rivers of Rotselaar, the Demer, the Dijle and the Winge, and the lake, the green represents the natural environment and nature reserves of Rotselaar, the plantations and the hills covered with forests, and last but not least, the sun gives Rotselaar blossoming vineyards and refers to the recreational facilities and activities in Rotselaar.

In hour 5 he discovers the tomb of Osiris which is an enclosure beneath which is hidden a lake of fire, the tomb is covered by a pyramid like mound ( identified with the goddess Isis ) and on top of which Isis and Nephthys have alighted in the form of two kites ( birds of prey ).

In the southern and eastern parts of the lake, the lake bed is dominated by limestone bedrock covered by deposits of precipitated marl.

Of the total area, is used for agriculture ; for forestry ; is covered by water ( including the Breiddalsvatnet lake ); and the rest is mountains and other non-arable land.

From mid-October to mid-June, the lake is typically covered with ice.