in

    it; and of noticeable plants, except in ttle meadoly

    overfloo it, a closer scrutiny

    does not detect a flag nor a bulrush, nor even a lily, yellow or

    only a feamogetons, and

    perer-target or t

    perceive; and ts are clean and brig

    tones extend a rod or to ter, and

    ttom is pure sand, except in t parts, where

    ttle sediment, probably from the

    leaves o it so many successive falls, and

    a brig up on ancer.

    e  like te Pond, in Nine Acre

    Corner, about t, though I am

    acquainted  of this

    centre I do not knoer.

    Successive nations perc, admired, and fathomed

    it, and passed aill its er is green and pellucid as

    ever.  Not an intermitting spring!  Per spring morning

    w of Eden alden Pond was already in

    existence, and even tle spring rain

    accompanied  and a south myriads

    of ducks and geese, w ill such

    pure lakes sufficed t o rise and

    fall, and s ers and colored they

    noained a patent of o be the only alden Pond

    in tiller of celestial dews.  ho knows in how many

    unremembered nations literatures talian

    Fountain? or  is

    a gem of t er w.

    Yet perc  some

    trace of tsteps.  I o detect

    encircling t been cut down

    on teep hillside,

    alternately rising and falling, approache

    ers edge, as old probably as the

    feet of aboriginal ers, and still from time to time u