Thoreau writes in his journal:
Spent the noon close by the old Dunstable graveyard, by a small stream north of it . . .
Walked to and along the river and bathed in it . . .
I returned through the grass up the winding channel of our little brook to the camp again . . .
Put up at a tavern in Merrimack, some miles after passing over a pretty high, flat-topped hill in road, whence we saw the mountains (with a steep descent to the interval on right). 7 P. M.—I walked by a path through the wood northeast to the Merrimack . . .