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Upper Lakes

• 1 Obs. Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior.

  See also: Great Lakes  

  • This early usage may have resulted from considering these lakes in relation to the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain.

  • 1780  (1959)  Mr Cornwall late Master Builder on the upper lakes came [as a] Passenger in the Vessel . . . Fn. Cornwall was master builder of ships on Lake Ontario.
  • 1803  (1912)  Both the North-West Companies (Old North-West Co. and X Y Company. Ed.) have vessels in the Upper Lakes (neither of them on Ontario). . . .

• 2 Lakes Huron and Superior, and, sometimes, Michigan, the most northerly of the Great Lakes.

  See also: Lower Lakes  Upper Lake  

  • 1850  Although it will be described in the Appendix, I may here advert to the singular fact that all the superfluous waters of the great upper lakes pass through it, while in one place it is only 115 yards broad.
  • 1959  Upper Lakes Shipping hopes to have a new bulker, Seaway Queen, on hand after her maiden trip to the Upper Lakes for ore.