the Thoreau Log.
15 December 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  has dried up almost all the water in the road. It still blows hard at 2 P.M., but it is not cold.

  3 P.M.—To Walden.

  The high northwest wind of this morning, with what of cold we have, has made some of those peculiar raketoothed icicles on the dead twigs, etc., about the edge of the pond at the east end. To produce this phenomenon is required only open water, a high wind, and sufficiently cold weather to freeze the spray . . .

(Journal, 9:181-183)

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