the Thoreau Log.
1 April 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Down railroad, measuring snow, and to Fair Haven Hill . . .

  Going by the path to the Springs, I find great beds of oak leaves, sometimes a foot thick, very dry and crisp and filling the path, or one side of it, in the woods for a quarter of a mile, inviting one to lie down. They have absorbed the heat and settled, like the single one seen yesterday in mass a foot or more, making a path . . .

(Journal, 8:236-239)

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