the Thoreau Log.
16 September 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Thursday. 8 A.M.—To Fair Haven Pond.

  Since the rains and the sun, great fungi, six inches in diameter, stand in the woods, warped upward on their edges, showing their gills, so as to hold half a gill of water . . .

  The rippled blue surface of Fair Haven from the Cliffs, with its smooth white border where weeds preserve the surface smooth, a placid silver-plated rim. The pond is like the sky with a border of whitish clouds in the horizon . . .

(Journal, 4:352-353)

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