Ladoga, Lake

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Ladoga, a vast Lake, which is thought to be the biggest in all Europe; called by the Russ Ladesko Ozero. It lies between Kelholm or Kexholm, a Province belonging to the Swedes to the West, and Kargapol a Province of Moscovy to the East: thirty six German Miles long, and twenty broad; abounding with Fish to that degree, that it has enriched Kexholm with the Fishery of Salmons. The Russ are Masters of about a fifth part of it, the rest is possessed by the Swedes: this Lake receives, besides a vast number of Rivers, the Waters of the Lake of Onega; which lies about sixty English Miles from it to the East, and is not much less than it; it transmits all these Waters into the Bay of Finland, by the River of Spasco, a Passage of about eleven German Miles.