Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lake Erie” in chapter 2, page 164 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:

...y tons, on the upper Niagara River, and, in the Griffin, freighted with the colony of fur-traders for the valley of the Mississippi, on the seventh day of August, un- furled a sail to the breezes of Lake Erie . Indifferent to the malignity of those who envied his genius, or were injured by his special privileges, La Salle, first of mariners, sailed over Lake Erie and between the verdant isles of the maje...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
Lake Erie (United States) 556 24 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Colorado, United States) 20 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Colorado, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Connecticut, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Florida, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Illinois, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Minnesota, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (New Mexico, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes
Lake Erie (Washington, United States) 0 0 0 0 0 user votes

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