and the railroad, and I myself have

    profaned alden, per attractive, if not t

    beautiful, of all our lakes, te Pond; --

    a poor name from its commonness, whe remarkable

    purity of its ers or ts sands.  In these as in

    ots,  is a lesser they are so

    muc you  be connected under ground.

    It ony ss ers are of the same hue.  As

    at alden, in sultry dog-day he woods

    on some of its bays  t tion

    from ttom tinges ts ers are of a misty bluish-green

    or glaucous color.  Many years since I used to go to collect

    tloads, to make sandpaper inued

    to visit it ever since.  One  proposes to call it

    Virid Lake.  Per mighe

    folloance.  About fifteen years ago you could see the

    top of a pitcs,

    t is not a distinct species, projecting above the surface in

    deep er, many rods from t was even supposed by some

    t tive forest

    t formerly stood t even so long ago as 1792, in

    a quot;topograpion of to; by one of its

    citizens, in tions of tts orical

    Society, ter speaking of alden and e Ponds, adds,

    quot;In tter may be seen, wer is very

    loree  now

    stands, alts are fifty feet belohe

    er; top of tree is broken off, and at t place

    measures fourteen incer.quot;  In the spring of 49 I

    talked  told

    me t it  tree ten or fifteen years before.

    As near as  stood teen rods from

    ter y or forty feet deep.  It was