the Thoreau Log.
22 September 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To the Three Friends’ Hill over Bear Hill.

  Yesterday and to-day the stronger winds of autumn have begun to blow, and the telegraph harp has sounded loudly. I heard it especially in the Deep Cut this afternoon, the tone varying with the tension of different parts of the wire. The sound proceeds from near the posts, where the vibration is apparently more rapid. I put my ear to one of the posts, and it seemed to me as if every pore of the wood was filled with music, labored with the strain,—as if every fiber was affected and being seasoned or timed, rearranged according to a new and more harmonious law.

(Journal, 3:11-13)

Thoreau writes in his journal on 24 September:

  Returning over the causeway from Flint’s Pond the other evening (22d), just at sunset, I observed that while the west was of a bright golden color under a bank of clouds,—the sun just setting,—and not a tinge of red was yet visible there, there was a distinct purple tinge in the nearer atmosphere, so that Annursnack Hill, seen through it, had an exceedingly rich empurpled look.
(Journal, 3:14)

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