his

    is a remarkable dept not an inc

    can be spared by tion.   if all ponds were shallow?

    ould it not react on 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 section ts centre 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 quot;a bay of salt er, sixty or seventy fathoms deep,

    four miles in breadt; and about fifty miles long, surrounded by

    mountains, observes, quot;If ely after the

    diluvian crasever convulsion of nature occasioned it,

    before ters gus a  it have

    appeared!

    quot;So umid hills, so low

    Doom broad and deep,

    Capacious bed of ers.quot;

    But if, using test diameter of Lochese

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

    vertical section only like a se, it will appear four

    times as she chasm of

    Locied.  No doubt many a smiling valley s

    stretcly suc;