the Thoreau Log.
4 April 1854.

Acton, Mass. Thoreau surveys a woodlot for Abel Hosmer (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 8; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  All day surveying a wood-lot in Acton for Abel Hosmer. He says that he has seen the small slate-colored hawk pursue and catch doves, i.e. the sharp-shinned . . . (Journal, 6:184).

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