Pontchartrain, LAKE, in Louisiana, about 5 miles N. of New Orleans, is 40 miles long and 25 wide, and communicates with the Gulf of Mexico. The drainage of New Orleans (q.v.) is carried into the lake through canals.
Pontchartrain, LAKE
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 308
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