The Pond in Winter
feet w 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