Thoreau writes in his journal:
At New Ulm just before dinner . . . Pushed over a tree & disturbed the bats. Bee tree cut. Take in a cartload of earth. Swing round on bars & pull off by capstan. Lay by half night. Were 15 or 20 miles above Mankato (Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 22).
Horace Mann Jr. writes to his mother Mary on 23 June:
we got started about 9 o’clock Friday night, and we passed Mankato in the night but at length we had to lie by on account of fog (Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 56).
