the Thoreau Log.
26 January 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  They have cut and sawed off the butt of the great elm at nine and a half feet from the ground, and I counted the annual rings there with the greatest ease and accuracy . . .

  P.M.—Walked down the river as far as the south bend behind Abner Buttrick’s . . .

Walked as far as Flint’s Bridge with Abel Hunt, where I took to the river . . .

Talking with Miss Mary Emerson this evening, she said, “It was not the fashion to be so original when I was young” . . .

(Journal, 8:142-146)

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