ntingly

    trodden by t occupants of ticularly

    distinct to one standing on ter, just

    after a liging we

    line, unobscured by er of a

    mile off in many places w is inguishable

    close at s it, as it were, in clear we

    type alto-relievo.  ted grounds of villas which will one

    day be built ill preserve some trace of this.

    t w, and

    period, nobody knoend to

    kno is commonly er and lohe summer,

    t corresponding to t and dryness.  I can

    remember  or t

    least five feet .  there is a narrow

    sand-bar running into it, er on one side, on which

    I tle of che main

    s t  been possible to do for

    ty-five years; and, on to listen

    y  a feer I was

    accustomed to fis in a secluded cove in the woods,

    fifteen rods from they knew, which place was long

    since converted into a meado teadily for

    t five feet higher

    t y years ago, and

    fishis makes a difference of

    level, at tside, of six or seven feet; and yet ter shed

    by t in amount, and this

    overflo be referred to causes he deep springs.

    to fall again.  It is remarkable

    t tuation, o

    require many years for its accomplis.  I have observed one rise

    and a part of t t a dozen or fifteen years

    er will again be as low as I .

    Flints Pond, a mile easturbance

    occasioned by its inlets and outlets, and termediate

    ponds also, sympatly