Thoreau surveys a house lot on Monument Street for Daniel Shattuck (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).
Thoreau also writes in his journal:
J. Baker’s pitch pines south of upper wood-path north of his house abundantly confirm the rule of young white pines under pitch pines. That fine young white pine wood west of this is partly of these which were left when the pitch pines were cut.
Baker’s hill between farm and Pleasant Meadow, oak (apparently a black), diameter twenty-six, seventyone rings. The stumps here were cut some five or six years ago and have fifty to sixty rings . . .
