... . In stormy weather they are sometimes of a dark slate color. The sea, however, is said to be blue on day and green another without any perceptible change in atmosphere. I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost green as grass. Some consider blue "to be the color of pure nature, whether liquid or solid." But. Looking down ... the ice and looked through the hole, until I saw my axe a little on one side, standing on its head, with its helve erect and gently swaying to and fro with the pulse of the pond; and there it might have stood ...

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