About ten o'clock
The water was just as clear as crystal , and you could see the bottom everywhere , even in the deepest places , with the great rocks covered with some glittering green substance that looked like emerald slabs , and the fish and turtles swimming about as if they thought there was no one looking at them . I could n't understand how the water had become so clear ; but I was told that we had left the river proper and were now in a stream that flowed from Silver Spring , which was the end of our voyage into the cypress woods . The water in the spring and in this stream was almost transparent , -- very different from the regular water of the river . About ten o'clock , we reached Silver Spring , which is like a little lake , with some houses on the bank . We made fast at a wharf , and , as we were to stop here some hours , everybody got ready to go ashore . Corny was the first one ready . Her mother thought she ought not to go , but her father said there was no harm in it .