The Pond in Winter
se, t test lengtersected
test breadtly at t of greatest depth,
notanding t tline of
treme length were
got by measuring into to myself,
t to t part of the ocean as well as
of a pond or puddle? Is not t of
mountains, regarded as te of valleys? e kno a hill
is not at its narro part.
Of five coves, three, or all which had been sounded, were
observed to e across ter
tended to be an expansion of er hin
t only ally but vertically, and to form a basin
or independent pond, tion of two capes she
course of t, also, s bar
at its entrance. In proportion as the cove was wider
compared s lengter over the bar was deeper compared
in the
cove, and ter of the surrounding shore, and you have
almost elements enougo make out a formula for all cases.
In order to see his experience,
at t point in a pond, by observing tlines of a
surface and ter of its shores alone, I made a plan of
e Pond, forty-one acres, and, like this,
, nor any visible inlet or outlet; and as the
line of greatest breadt breadth,
e capes approace bays
receded, I ventured to mark a point a s distance from tter
line, but still on test lengt. the
deepest part o be of till
fartion to which I had inclined, and was only one
foot deeper, namely, sixty feet. Of course, a stream running
the problem much more