and squirming to t was very queer, especially in

    dark nigs o vast and cosmogonal

    to feel t jerk, wo

    interrupt your dreams and link you to Nature again.  It seemed as if

    I mig cast my line upo the air, as well as downward

    into t, wo

    fis h one hook.

    though very

    beautiful, does not approaco grandeur, nor can it much concern

    one ed it or lived by its s this

    pond is so remarkable for its depty as to merit a

    particular description.  It is a clear and deep green well, half a

    mile long and a mile and ters in circumference, and

    contains about sixty-one and a he

    midst of pine and oak  any visible inlet or outlet

    except by tion.  the surrounding hills rise

    abruptly from ter to t of forty to eig,

    t and east ttain to about one hundred

    and one y feet respectively, er and a

    they are exclusively woodland.  All our Concord

    ers  least; one ance, and

    anot  depends more on the

    lighey

    appear blue at a little distance, especially if agitated, and at a

    great distance all appear alike.  In stormy hey are

    sometimes of a dark slate-color.  to be

    blue one day and green anot any perceptible che

    atmosphe landscape being

    covered er and ice  as green as grass.

    Some consider blue quot;to be ter, wher liquid or

    solid.quot;  But, looking directly doo our ers from a boat,

    to be of very differe