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Myth: The Origin of Lakes and Mountains George was a lonely old giant who stood forty stories tall. George was lonely and upset because he had lost his puppy; his one and only friend. He looked high and low for his little dog, but she was nowhere to be found. Every time he saw rustling in the bushes down below, he would push aside all of the trees and dirt with his mammoth hands. He …

…looked like a spec of snow on top of huge pile of dirt covered in trees and grass (what we would now call mountain ranges). When George realized that his little friend found his was back to him he began to cry tears of joy. He cried so much that all of those trenches and the imprints of his fingers filled with tears and created what we know today as our finger lakes and rivers.