Just as diving into water is to seek life's secrets, and immersion in water is to purify or be reborn, "crossing the waters is to effect a transformation from one state to another" (El Palacio, 1992). If so, then what state has jurisdiction over the crossing of lakes Eerie and Ladoga? Answer: Freedonia, under the rule of Rufus T. Firefly.
(Our image appears in The British Isles, translated from Nouvelle Géographie Universelle by Ernest Georg Ravenstein, 1887.)