PEPACTON 



or frozen. There is warmth there in winter and 

 coolness in summer. The temperature is equalized. 

 In March or April the spring runs are a bright 

 emerald while the surrounding fields are yet brown 

 and sere, and in fall they are yet green when the 

 first snow covers them. Thus every fountain by 

 the roadside is a fountain of youth and of life. This 

 is what the old fables finally mean. 



An intermittent spring is shallow; it has no deep 

 root, and is like an inconstant friend. But a peren- 

 nial spring, one whose ways are appointed, whose 

 foundation is established, what a profound and 

 beautiful symbol! In fact, there is no more large 

 and universal symbol in nature than the spring, if 

 there is any other capable of such wide and various 

 applications. 



What preparation seems to have been made for 

 it in the conformation of the ground, even in the 

 deep underlying geological strata! Vast rocks and 

 ledges are piled for it, or cleft asunder that it may 

 find a way. Sometimes it is a trickling thread of 

 silver down the sides of a seamed and scarred preci- 

 pice. Then again the stratified rock is like a just- 

 lifted lid, from beneath which the water issues. 

 Or it slips noiselessly out of a "deep dimple in the 

 fields. Occasionally it bubbles up in the valley, 

 as if forced up by the surrounding hills. Many 

 springs, no doubt, find an outlet in the beds of the 

 large rivers and lakes, and are unknown to all but 

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