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

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A smart frost this morning. Ground stiffened. Hear of ice in a tub.

  P.M.—To Gowing’s Swamp.

  The water standing over the road at Moore’s Swamp, I see the sand spotted black with many thousands of little snails with a shell, and two feelers out, slowly dragging themselves over the bottom. They reminded me by their color, number, and form of the young tadpoles . . .

(Journal, 12:396-399)

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