An idea from Walden

People said Walden Pond had no bottom. Early in 1846 he measured it through the ice with a cod line and a stone, and found the deepest point at exactly 102 feet. “While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.”

From Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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