I can't find my Mail Library

I have switched from a POP account to an IMAP account and want to import the emails from the old POP account to the new IMAP account.
I am running Yosemite and have spent hours looking for the Library where the old POP emails are stored but can not find it. HELP!
I have read some threads suggesting that this folder is hidden. If so, does anybody know how to find it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
alexfromseaforth.

If you haven't yet deleted the IMAP account, just drag the messages to the new mailbox within Mail. If you have deleted the account, and you back up with Time Machine, see below.
Bring the Mail browser window forward, then enter Time Machine. You'll see a series of Mail windows cascading back in time, each representing a snapshot of the Mail database.
Scroll back to the most recent snapshot containing the messages you want to restore. Select the messages, then click Restore. The messages will be restored to a new mailbox named "com.apple.Mail.backup" in the On My Mac group. From there you can move them wherever you like.
Depending on how many mailboxes you have, you may have to scroll the mailbox list up or down to see the new entry. According to some reports, you might have to relaunch Mail, or perhaps wait a while for the database to be reindexed, before it shows up. I can't confirm those reports.

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