Thoreau writes in his journal:
One end of the log hut was a camp, with the usual fir floor and log benches and a clerk’s office. I measured one of the many batteaux lying about, with my two-foot ash rule made here. It was not peculiar in any respect that I noticed (Journal, 5:425)
In “Chesuncook,” Thoreau writes:
This house was designed and constructed with the freedom of stroke of a forester’s axe, without other compass and square than Nature uses . . . One end was a regular logger’s camp, for the boarders, with the usual fir floor and log benches . . .
