Micelum Merum Norðamerices

Þā Micelan Meras sindon fīf micel meras on þǣm ēastmidlande Norðamerices. Hīe healdaþ ān and twentiġ dǣl on hund þæs weoruldes oferflōwan ferscan wæteres.

Þā fīf meras sindon: Mere Hīerra, Mere Micelwæteres, Mere Hurones, Mere Langtæglan, and Mere Ontariones.

Eorðġewrit
Fēower þāra micelan mera sindon on þǣre gemǣre betwēonan Canadan and þāra Geānedan Rīca. Þæt ōðer, Mere Micelwæteres, is eall inn on þām Geānedan Rīce.

Ealle ætsomne, be micelnese, hīe sindon sēo mǣste flocc fersces wætermara on þǣre weorulde. Nān ān þāra merena is māre þonne Mere Beaclan (on Russialande) oþþe Mere Tanganica (on Ēastaffrice).

Þā burga Scīcāgo on Ilinoises (nigon þūsend and eahta hund þūsenda folces, on Mere Micelwæteres); Þoruntūn on Ontærigoes (fīf þūsend and fīf hund þūsenda folces, on Mere Ontariones); Deitroite on Miscegan (fīf þūsend and þrī hund þūsenda folces, on þǣm Dēotford Flōde); Muntreall on Cwebec (þrī þūsend and nigon hund þūsenda folces, on þǣm Sancte Laurentius Flōde); Clēafaland on Ohiones (twā þūsend and nigon hund þūsenda folces, on Mere Langtæglan); Bufles and Ottawa (ān þūsend and twā hund þūsenda folces, on þǣm Ottawa Flōde) sindon on þǣm ofrum þāra micelan merena oþþe heora flōda.

Þēah þā fīf meras habbaþ sundorwæterfæten, hīe ġewyrceþ ānlicne, gesomnodne lȳt fersces wæteres. Þā meras geþeodaþ þæt ēastmidland þæs innermēstan Norðamerices tō þām Westsæ. Þā meras Micelwæteres, Hurones, and Langtæglan sindon ġerecenod gelīce hēah, and scipu magon ēaðe gangan of ānum tō þām ōðrum. Wæter flēoweþ fram Mere Hīerra and Mere Micelwæteres intō Mere Hurones; þonne þurh þone Deitroitean Flōd intō Mere Langtæglan; þonne þurh Niagarān Anflōde intō Mere Ontariones; and þonne þurh þone Sancte Laurentius Flōd tō þām Atlantiscan Gārsecge. Wæter ēac drēnaþ of þām Cīcan Flōde on þām sūðdǣle.

Maniga flōdas flēowaþ þurh micel wæterflōdes bedd on þā meras. Þā meras habbaþ ymbe þrī and fīf tēna þūsenda īeglanda. Þæt Micelmere landrīce inbelūcaþ þā fīf meras and maniga þūsenda lǣssan mera, oft gehātene inland meras.