the Thoreau Log.
17 March 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  6.30 A.M.—River risen still higher. It is seven and a half inches below the highest part of the truss and about fifteen and a half inches below the middle of the lower stone step of the railroad . It is not quite over Wood’s road . . .

  P.M.—To Flint’s Bridge by water.

  The water is very high, and smooth as ever it is. It is very warm. I wear but one coat on the water. The town and the land it is built on seem to rise but little above the flood. This bright smooth and level surface seems here the prevailing clement, as if the distant town were an island . . .

(Journal, 12:53-57)

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