Thoreau writes in his journal:
Opened one of my snapping turtle’s eggs. The young alive, but not very lively, with shell dark grayish black; yolk as big as a hazelnut; tail curled round and is considerably longer than the shell, and slender; three ridges on back, one at edges of plates on each side of dorsal, which is very prominent. There is only the trace of a dorsal ridge in the old. Eye open.
P.M.—By boat to Purple Utricularia Shore . . .
I see white lilies wide open at 2.30 P.M. They are half open even at 5 P.M. in many places this moist cloudy day and thus late in their season . . . Bathed at Hubbard’s . . .
New York, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the Home Journal.
New York, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the Churchman.
