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 1    1|      loon retires to solitary ponds to spend it. Thus also the
 2   10|                               PONDS~ ~
 3   10|        and, like that of most ponds, imparts to the body of
 4   10|   acquainted with most of the ponds within a dozen miles of
 5   10|      the smaller intermediate ponds also, sympathize with Walden,
 6   10|       shore; for, unlike many ponds and all waters which are
 7   10|      the river and most other ponds, as the water is purer,
 8   10| elevated, by a chain of small ponds coming from that quarter,
 9   10|  lower, by a similar chain of ponds through which in some other
10   10|  speaking of Walden and White Ponds, adds, "In the middle of
11   13|     could easily see to other ponds and the river, like black
12   14|   Flint's and other shallower ponds and the river having been
13   16|                      WHEN THE ponds were firmly frozen, they
14   17|   visited two such Bottomless Ponds in one walk in this neighborhood.
15   17|      imagination. What if all ponds were shallow? Would it not
16   17|  believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.~ ~
17   17|     an angle. But the deepest ponds are not so deep in proportion
18   17|    than a shallow plate. Most ponds, emptied, would leave a
19   17|     holes even in quiet sandy ponds like this, but the effect
20   17|   merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.
21   18|      Of '52-3, which gave the ponds so severe a trial. It commonly
22   18|     the opening of the former ponds, while the temperature of
23   18| breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the
24   18|    ice dissolves apace in the ponds. The grass flames up on