Spring
tracts by tters commonly causes a
pond to break up earlier; for ter, agitated by the wind, even
in cold suc
t on alden t year, for s a thick new
garment to take this pond never breaks up so
soon as t bots
greater depts ream passing t to melt or
to open in the course of a
er, not excepting t of 52-3, whe ponds so severe
a trial. It commonly opens about t of April, a en
days later ts Pond and Fair o melt on
ts o freeze.
It indicates better ter s te progress
of t affected by transient changes of
temperature. A severe cold of a feion in March may very
mucard temperature
of alden increases almost uninterruptedly. A ter t
into tood at 32x,
or freezing point; near t 33x; in ts
Pond, t 32+x; at a dozen rods from the shore, in
ser, under ice a foot t 36x. this difference of
temperature of ter
and tter pond, and t t a great
proportion of it is comparatively s should break
up so muc part was
at time several inche middle. In
mider t and t
t the
pond in summer must er is
close to than a
little distance out, and on t is deep, than near
ttom. In spring t only exerts an influence through
temperature of t its passes
t or more ted from ttom
in ser, and so also er and melts the under
side of t time t it is melting it more
directly abov