the Thoreau Log.
5 April 1854.

Carlisle, Mass. Thoreau surveys woodlots for Samuel Hoar (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:

  Surveying all day for Mr. [Samuel] Hoar in Carlisle, near Hitchinson’s and near I. [?] Green’s . . . I rode with my employer a dozen miles to-day, keeping a profound silence almost all the way as the most simple and natural course . . .
(Journal, 6:184)

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