Quote Originally Posted by Pank.HQ View Post
...what?

Rivers lead from lakes to oceans, not from oceans to lakes. Rivers and lakes are largely created due to rainfall (Also glaciers, etc), but freshwater lakes do not get their water from the ocean.

Most lakes are connected to rivers, but not all of them are.
Rivers do typically lead into lakes, though, but not from the oceans, rather from the Mountains, where rainwater and snowmelt collect and begin their downstream journey to the sea (stopping along the way, as the case may be, in a nice lake or two).