Lake of the Woods, a large lake of North America, studded with numerous wooded islands, mostly in Ontario, but touching also Manitoba and Minnesota. Gold was found about it in 1897. The lake is nearly 100 miles long, and about 300 in circuit. It is fed by the Rainy River, and drained by the Winnipeg.
Lake of the Woods
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 488
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