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Re: Lake Tahoe

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From: Dallman Ross
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:50
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Lon Stowell (lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com) spaketh thusly:
> In article <dmanCuI318.JL3@netcom.com> dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) writes:
> >
> >"Moderately" deep?  It is the deepest freshwater lake in North
> >America, if memory serves.  
>   
>     It AIN'T the biggest or the deepest.  Flathead lake in Montana
>     is both bigger and deeper...and that is just the natural lakes,
>     there are manmades larger.  Note that you left off the "west
>     of the Mississippi" disclaimer, as there are larger lakes east
>     of the Mississippi OTHER than those little potholes up near the
>     Illinois, Michigan, Canada area that seem to have dried up in your
>     memory.  Not to mention the overgrown swamp in Florida. >:-)

>     I could swear that there is a lake in Oregon which is deeper, but
>     wouldn't put money on it.  


That must be Crater Lake.  I don't know if it's deeper or not,
but it's deep, too.

I never said "bigger" -- so if I'm wrong about deeper, I'll
own up to it; but don't start saying I said Tahoe was the "biggest,"
too.  I didn't.

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