the Thoreau Log.
1 January 1851. Clinton, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “An Excursion to Cape Cod” at Clinton Hall for the Bigelow Mechanic Institute (Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995, 191-193).

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal on 2 January:

  Saw at Clinton last night a room at the gingham-mills which covers one and seven-eighths acres and contains 578 looms, not to speak of spindles, both throttle and mule. The rooms all together cover three acres (Journal, 2:134-136).

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