Thoreau writes in his journal:
By 5.30 the fog has withdrawn from the channel here and stands southward over the Texas Plain, forty or fifty feet high . . .
9 A.M.—Walk all day with W. E. C., [William Ellery Channing] northwest into Acton and Carlisle . . .
At evening, Mr. [John] Russell showed me his microscope at Miss Mackay’s. Looked at a section of pontederia leaf . . .
Albany, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the Albany Argus.