the Thoreau Log.
31 December 1850. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I observe that in the cut by Walden Pond the sand and stones fall from the overhanging bank and rest on the snow below; and thus, perchance, the stratum deposited by the side of the road in the winter can permanently be distinguished from the summer one by some faint seam, to be referred to the peculiar conditions under which it was deposited . . .

  Certain meadows, as Heywood’s, contain warmer water than others and are slow to freeze . . .

(Journal, 2:133)

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