the Thoreau Log.
11 November 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Goodwin brings me this forenoon a this year’s loon, which he just killed on the river,—a great northern diver, but a smaller specimen than Wilson describes and somewhat differently marked . . .

  Speaking of twiggy mazes, the very stubble and fine pasture grasses unshorn are others reflecting the light, too, like twigs; but these are of a peculiar bleached brownish color, a principal ingredient in the russet of the earth’s surface . . .

(Journal, 11:309-315)

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