the Thoreau Log.
19 May 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  A.M.—Surveying D. Shattuck’s woodlot beyond Peter’s.

  See myriads of minute pollywogs, recently hatched, in the water of Moore’s Swamp on Bedford road. Digging again to find a stake in woods, came across a nest or colony of wood ants, yellowish or sand-color, a third of an inch long, with their white grubs, now squirming . . .

(Journal, 9:371-372)

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