t hand, has a green

    tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can 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 interest to

    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

    contain, and t transparent is t.  Ice is an

    interesting subject for contemplation.  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 becomes putrid,

    but frozen remains s forever?  It is commonly 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

    alden er ting 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 Con

    and Neta, drink at my

    ellect