After a still er nig some

        question    to me, wo

        anshere was

        daure, in    my broad

        isfied face, and no question on her lips.

        I ao an ansion, to Nature and daylighe snow

        lying deep on tted he very slope

        of to say, Forward!

        Nature puts no question and answers none wals ask.    She

        aken ion.    "O Prince, our eyes plate

        ion and transmit to the wonderful and varied

        spectacle of t veils    doubt a part of

        tion; but day es to reveal to us t

        o t;

        to my m    I take an axe and pail and go in

        searcer, if t be not a dream.    After a cold and snowy

        nig needed a divining-rod to find it.    Every er the liquid

        and trembling surface of tive to every

        breated every ligo the

        dept or a foot and a    it    the

        teams, ao an equal depth,

        and it is not to be distinguishe

        marmots in t closes its eyelids and bees

        dormant for tanding on the snow-covered

        plain, as if in a pasture amid t my    through

        a foot of sno of ice, and open a window under my

        feet, o t parlor of

        tened lighrough a window of

        ground glass, s brighe same as in summer;

        ty reigns as in t

        sky, corresponding to temperament of the

        inants.     is well as over our heads.

        Early in t, men

        e    doheir fine

        lio take pickerel and perch; wild men,

        ively follorust oties

        toits

        togets

        tout fear-naughe

        sural lore as tizen is in artificial.

        ted ell much less

        tice are said not

        yet to be known.    h grown perch

        for bait.    You look into o a summer pond,

        as if    summer locked up at home, or knew where she had

        retreated.     ter?    O

        of rotten logs si

        tself passes deeper in nature tudies of

        turalist pee;    for turalist.    the

        latter raises tly h his knife in search of

        is; to th his axe, and

        moss and bark fly far and wide.    s his living by barking

        trees.    Suc to fiso see nature

        carried out in he pickerel

        she pickerel; and so

        all the scale of being are filled.

        rolled around ty imes

        amused by tive mode wed.

        he narrow holes in

        t and an equal distance

        from teo a stick

        to prevent its being pulled the slack line over

        a t or more above tied a dry

        oak leaf to it, which, being pulled down, would show when he had a

        bite.    t at regular intervals as

        you walked he pond.

        Ahe ice, or

        in ts in ttle

        o admit ter, I am aly,

        as if to treets,

        even to to our cord life.    they

        possess a quite dazzling and transdey wes

        terval from the cadaverous cod and haddock whose

        fame is trumpeted in our streets.    t green like the

        pines, nray like tones, nor blue like t they

        o my eyes, if possible, yet rarer colors, like flowers and

        precious stones, as if the animalized nuclei

        or crystals of ter.    they, of course, are alden all

        over and all the animal

        kingdom, aldenses.    It is surprising t t here --

        t in ttling

        teams and kling sleig travel the alden road,

        t gold and emerald fiso see its

        kind in any market; it here.

        Easily, ery

        gs, like a mortal translated before ime to thin air of

        heaven.

        As I o recover t bottom of alden

        Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, early in

        46, here have been many

        stories told about ttom, or rattom, of this pond,

        is remarkable

        tomlessness of a pond

        taking trouble to sound it.    I ed tomless

        Ponds in one

        alden reace to the globe.    Some

        ime, looking dh

        tery eyes into the bargain,

        and driven to y clusions by tg cold in

        ts,    ;into w

        be driven," if to drive it, ted source

        of tyx arao ts.

        Ot;fifty-six" and a

        o find any bottom; for

        y-six" ing by t

        ttempt to fatruly immeasurable

        capacity for marvellousness.    But I    assure my readers t

        alden igtom at a not unreasohough

        at an unusual, dept easily h a cod-line and a

        stone ely

        ttom, by o pull so much harder

        before ter got undero est depth was

        exactly oo whe five

        feet w his

        is a remarkable dept not an inc

        be spared by tion.     if all ponds were shallow?

        ould it not rea t this

        pond was made deep and pure for a symbol.    he

        infinite some ponds    to be bottomless.

        A factory-o t it

        could not be true, for, judging from ance h dams,

        sand    lie at so steep an angle.    But t ponds are

        not so deep in proportion to t suppose, and, if

        drained,    leave very remarkable valleys.    t like

        cups bethis one, which is so unusually deep for

        its area, appears in a vertical se ts tre not

        deeper te.    Most ponds, emptied, would leave a

        meadow no more ly see.    illiam Gilpin, who

        is so admirable in all t relates to landscapes, and usually so

        correct, standing at tland, which he

        describes as "a bay of salt er, sixty or seventy fathoms deep,

        four miles i; and about fifty miles long, surrounded by

        mountains, observes, "If ely after the

        diluvian crasever vulsion of nature occasio,

        before ters gus a    it have

        appeared!

        "So umid hills, so low

        Doom broad and deep,

        Capacious bed of ers."

        But if, usi diameter of Lochese

        proportions to alden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a

        vertical se only like a se, it will appear four

        times as she chasm of

        Locied.    No doubt many a smiling valley s

        stretcly suc;; from

        and

        t of t to viing

        inants of t.    Often an inquisitive eye may detect the

        sive lake in the low horizon hills, and no

        subsequent elevation of to ceal

        tory.    But it is easiest, as the highways

        knoo find ter a s

        of it is, tion give it t lise, dives deeper

        and soars ure goes.    So, probably, the

        o o be very insiderable pared s

        breadth.

        As I souermihe

        bottom er accuracy than is possible in surveying harbors

        its general

        regularity.    In t part there are several acres more level

        t any field he sun, wind, and plow.

        In one instance, on a line arbitrarily c

        vary more t in ty rods; and generally, he

        middle, I could calculate tion for ea

        any dire beforehree or four inches.    Some are

        aced to speak of deep and dangerous    sandy

        ponds like t t of er uances

        is to level all inequalities.    ty of ttom and its

        ity to the neighb hills were

        so perfect t a distant promontory betrayed itself in the

        soundings quite across ts dire could be

        determined by    te shore.    Cape bees bar, and

        plain ser and el.

        en rods to an inch,

        and put dohan a hundred in all, I observed

        ticed t the number

        indig test deptly in tre of the

        map, I laid a rule on thwise, and

        found, to my surprise, t test lengtersected

        test breadtly at t of greatest depth,

        notanding t tline of

        treme length were

        got by measuring into to myself,

        t    to t part of the o as well as

        of a pond or puddle?    Is not t of

        mountains, regarded as te of valleys?    e kno a hill

        is not    at its narro part.

        Of five coves, three, or all which had been sounded, were

        observed to e across ter

        teo be an expansion of er hin

        t only ally but vertically, and to form a basin

        or indepe pond, tion of tes she

        course of t, also, s bar

        at its entrance.    In proportion as the cove was wider

        pared s lengter over the bar was deeper pared

        in the

        cove, and ter of the surrounding shore, and you have

        almost elements enougo make out a formula for all cases.

        In order to see his experience,

        at t point in a pond, by    tlines of a

        surfad ter of its shores alone, I made a plan of

        e Pond,    forty-one acres, and, like this,

        , nor any visible i or outlet; and as the

        line of greatest breadt breadth,

        e capes approace bays

        receded, I veo mark a point a s distance from tter

        line, but still o lengt.    the

        deepest part o be    of till

        fartion to which I had ined, and was only one

        foot deeper, namely, sixty feet.    Of course, a stream running

        the problem much more

        plicated.

        If ure, we s,

        or tion of oual po infer all the

        particular results at t point.    Now we know only a few laws, and

        our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any fusion or

        irregularity in Nature, but by norance of essential elements

        in tion.    Our notions of law and harmony are only

        fio tances ; but the harmony which

        results from a far greater number of seemingly flig, but

        really curring, laected, is still more

        icular las of vieo

        traveller, a mountain outline varies ep, and it has

        an infinite number of profiles, tely but one form.

        Even    is not pres

        entireness.

        I rue i

        is ters not only

        guides us toem and t in man, but

        drae of a

        mans particular daily beo his coves

        and is, and     or depth of

        er.    Pero know rend

        and    try or circumstao infer h and

        cealed bottom.    If ainous circumstances,

        an Aced in his

        bosom, t a correspondi a low and

        smoot side.    In our bodies, a bold

        projeg broo and indicates a correspondih of

        t.    Also trance of our every cove,

        or particular ination; each is our harbor for a season, in which

        ained and partially land-locked.    tions are

        not ion are

        determined by tories of t axes of

        elevation.    orms, tides,

        or currents, or ters, so t it

        reaco t    but an ination

        in t was harbored bees an individual

        lake, cut off from t secures its own

        ditions -- c to fres

        sea, dead sea, or a mars t of eaco

        t suppose t suco the

        surfaerue,    our

        ts, for t part, stand off and on upon a harborless

        coast, are versant only s of the bays of poesy, or

        steer for ts of entry, and go into the dry docks of

        sce, ural

        currents cur to individualize them.

        As for t or outlet of alden, I    discovered any

        but rain and snoion, th a

        ter and a line, suche

        er floo t    in summer and

        in er.     work he

        cakes sent to ted by those who were

        stag t being to lie side by side

        ; and tters t the ice over a

        small space han elsewhere, which

        made t t they also showed me

        in anot t ;leac; through which

        t under a o a neighb meadow, pushing

        me out on a cake of ice to see it.    It y uen

        feet of er; but I t I     t to need

        s till t.    One ed,

        t if suc;leac; ss e he

        meadoed, might be proved by veying some, colored

        po to tting a

        strainer over te of

        ticles carried t.

        een inchick,

        undulated under a sliger.    It is    a

        level ot be used on ice.    At one rod from ts greatest

        fluctuation, wed

        toed staff on ters of an inch,

        ttaco t was

        probably greater in t if our instruments

        e enoug dete undulation in t of

        the

        ts ed over tter, a

        rise or fall of t infinitesimal amount made a

        difference of several feet on a tree across the pond.    hen I began

        to cut er

        on t t the

        er began immediately to run into tio

        run for treams, whe i every

        side, and tributed essentially, if not mainly, to dry the surface

        of ter ran in, it raised and floated the

        ice.    t like cutting a tom of a ship

        to let ter out.    hen such holes freeze, and a rain succeeds,

        and finally a new freezing forms a fres is

        beautifully mottled internally by dark figures, s like

        a spiders tes, produced by the

        cer floo a tre.

        Sometimes, also, wh shallow puddles, I

        sahe

        otrees or hillside.

        it is cold January, and snohid

        solid, t landlord es from to get ice to

        cool ically, o

        foresee t and t of July now in January -- wearing a

        t and mittens! w provided for.

        It may be t reasures in this world which will cool

        .    s and sahe solid pond,

        unroofs ts off t and

        air,    by cakes like corded he

        fav er air, to ry cellars, to underlie the summer

        t looks like solidified azure, as, far off, it is drawn

        treets.    tters are a merry race, full of

        jest and sport, and    to invite

        me to sa-fasanding underh.

        In ter of 46-7 there came a hundred men of hyperborean

        extra so our pond one m, h many carloads

        of ungainly-looking farming tools -- sleds, plows, drill-barrows,

        turf-knives, spades, saws, rakes, and each a

        double-pointed pike-staff, suc described in the

        or.    I did not know whey

        o soer rye, or some other kind of grain

        retly introduced from Id.    As I sa

        t to skim the soil was

        deep and    a gentleman

        farmer, o double his money,

        ed to    in

        order to cover eacook off the

        only coat, ay, tself, of alden Pond in t of a

        er.    t to    once, plowing, barrowing,

        rolling, furro on

        making t wo see w

        kind of seed to the furrow, a gang of fellows by my

        side suddenly began to self, h a

        peculiar jerk,    doo ter -- for it

        erra firma there was --

        and    a t be

        cutti in a bog.    So t every day, h a

        peculiar sive, from and to some point of the

        pions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic

        sno sometimes Squaw alden had her revenge, and a hired

        man, he ground

        dooartarus, and he who was so brave before suddenly became

        but t of a man, almost gave up , and was

        glad to take refuge in my    there was

        some virtue in a stove; or sometimes took a piece of

        steel out of a plo in to

        be cut out.

        to speak literally, a h Yankee overseers,

        came from Cambridge every day to get out t

        into cakes by metoo o require description, and

        to to an

        ice platform, and raised by grappling irons and blod tackle,

        ack, as surely as so many barrels of

        flour, and there placed evenly side by side, and row upon row, as if

        to pierce the

        clouds.    told me t in a good day t out a

        tons, s and

        "cradle-; erra firma, by the

        passage of track, and the horses invariably

        ate ts out of cakes of ice    like buckets.    they

        stacked up ty-five feet

        ting ween

        tside layers to exclude though

        never so cold, finds a passage t ies,

        leaving sligs or studs only here, and finally

        topple it do first it looked like a vast blue fort or

        Val uck to the

        crevices, and t looked

        like a venerable moss-grointed

        marble, ter, t old man he almanac --

        y, as if o estivate hey

        calculated t not ty-five per t of ts

        destination, and t t ed in the

        cars.    ill greater part of t

        destiny from ended; for, eithe ice was

        found not to keep so ed, taining more air than

        usual, or for some ot never got to market.    this heap,

        made in ter of 46-7 aimated to taihousand

        tons,    was

        unroofed t of it carried off, t

        remaining exposed to t stood over t summer and t

        er, and    quite melted till September, 1848.    the

        pond recovered ter part.

        Like ter, t hand, has a green

        tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you    easily tell

        it from te ice of the merely greenish ice of

        some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.    Sometimes one of t

        cakes slips from to treet, and

        lies t emerald, an object of io

        all passers.    I iced t a portion of alden whe

        state of er en, whe

        same point of vie this pond will,

        sometimes, in ter, be filled er somew

        like its o t day will he

        blue color of er and ice is due to t and air they

        tain, and t transparent is t.    Ice is an

        iing subject for plation.    told me t they had

        some in t Fresh Pond five years old which was as

        good as ever.     t a bucket of er soon bees putrid,

        but frozen remains s forever?    It is only said t this is

        tions and tellect.

        teen days I saw from my window a    work

        like busy eams and ly all the

        implements of farming, sucure as    page of

        ten as I looked out I he

        fable of the sower, and

        ty days more,

        probably, I she pure sea-green

        aldeing trees, and sending

        up its evaporations in solitude, and no traces    a

        man ood tary loon

        laugh as he dives and plumes himself, or shall see a lonely fisher

        in , like a floating leaf, beed in

        tely a hundred men securely labored.

        t appears t tering inants of

        aa, drink at my

        elle tupendous and

        ogonal p-Geeta, since wion

        years of th which our

        modern s literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt

        if t p to be referred to a previous state of

        existence, so remote is its sublimity from our ceptions.    I lay

        doo my er, and lo! t the

        servant of t of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who

        still sits in emple on the Vedas, or dwells

        at t of a tree    and er jug.    I meet his

        servant e to draer for er, and our buckets as it

        e togeter is

        mingled er of t

        is ed past te of tlantis and the

        ing by ternate

        and tidore and ts in tropic

        gales of ts of which Alexander

        only he names.
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