In his office, when Kendall looked up from his Tocqueville, he could see the opalescent lake spreading out in all directions.
Already the concrete base of a man-made lake spreads around the construction, for architect Jean Nouvel's Louvre will be on a miniature island, its works of art transported to its gallery through an underground tunnel, light sprinkled into its interior as if through the fronds of palm trees.
Designed to tap the huge power of the river before it spent its strength on the plains and wetland forests, the Iron Gates dams resulted in a storage lake spreading 100 miles back upstream, through the mountains towards Belgrade, turning Europe's second longest river into a half river, half lake.
This is the West, expanding in all directions, dominated by the luminosity of the sun and its apparitions, and the lake spreads out as far as the eye can see.
Birds that sought prey in lakes spread out their toes when they hit the water, and eventually developed webbed feet and became ducks.
As the trail became a raised berm, dull, algae-choked lakes spread out to the right and a canal flanked it to the left.
The spilled oil was collected in 300 oil lakes, spread over an area of about 49 km2.
At the glacier's edge, the trail comes to the first of the Gokyo Lakes, a chain of six lakes spread over more than 10km that form the highest freshwater lake system in the world.
Water is even more prevalent, with the Spree River running through the city's centre, a broad belt of lakes spreading out east and west, and canals running through much of the city.
The lake, which spread over much of central Canada and the northern United States and at its maximum covered more area than all of the Great Lakes combined, emerged as the glaciers melted.
This lake water spread over an area of 1.295 km2 (0.500 sq. mi) with average depth of 5.82 m (19.1 ft), and it is filled up when the rains lashed the city.
