Still cold and blustering. I come out to see the sand and subsoil in the Deep Cut, as I would to see a spring flower, some redness in the check of Earth. These cold days have made the ice of Walden dry and pretty hard again at top. It is just twenty-four inches thick in the Middle, about eleven inches of snow ice . . .

  I go to Fair Haven via the Andromeda Swamps. The snow is a foot and more in depth there still. There is a little bare ground in and next to the swampy woods at the head of Well Meadow . . .