Michigan, Lake, in the N. of the United States, between Michigan and Wisconsin, is the third largest of the fresh-water seas, its surface being three-fourths that of Scotland; it is 335 m. long and 50 to 80 broad, bears much commerce, has low sandy shores and no islands; the chief ports are Chicago, Milwaukee, and Racine.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Michigan * Mickiewicz, Adam