the Thoreau Log.
23 October 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Ledum Swamp.

  One tells me that he saw geese go over Wayland the 17th . . .

  A man at work on the Ledum Pool, draining it, says that, when they had ditched about six feet deep, or to the bottom, near the edge of this swamp, they came to old flags, and he thought that the whole swamp was once a pond and the flags grew by the edge of it . . .

(Journal, 11:240-242)

Log Index


Log Pages

Donation

$