This Niagara Falls with its sheer thunderous drop has been an illusive barrier between this and other lakes, and the St. Lawrence sluicing out its eastern end draws Ontario's attention seaward.
They included several terms that came from other languages like French, German, and Italian and for many of them their pronunciations and meanings maybe as illusive as their spellings.
Let us approach the lakes the best way. We should get on board a ship and start from the Lake Ontario. It is the smallest of the Great Lakes, but compared with the other lakes, Ontario is more illusive.
A dynamic law requires that two masses — nature and man — must go on, reacting upon each other, without stop, as the sun and a comet react on each other, and that any appearance of stoppage is illusive.