Minn.. to Watertown in northcentral New York. Together they have an area of 95.000 square miles of which 61.000just under twothirdslie within U.S. boundaries. Before the first European arrived. the lakes were important arteries of commerce and traffic for the Indians. Later. they provided avenues of travel by which the earliest explorers penetrated to the heart of the continent. Then came the missionaries. the fur traders. and finally the growing flood of immigrants seeking new and permanent homes in an area rich in land and other natural resources. To all of them the lakes were a highway. This stream of traffic has never ceased to grow.
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