the Thoreau Log.
10 February 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A very strong and a cold northwest wind to-day, shaking the house,—thermometer at 11 A.M., 14°,—consumes wood and yet we are cold, and drives the smoke down the chimney.

  I see that Wheildon’s pines are rocking and showing their silvery under sides as last spring,—their first awakening, as it were.

  P.M.—The river, where open, is very black, as usual when the waves run high, for each wave casts a shadow . . .

(Journal, 13:133-136)

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