the Thoreau Log.
8 July 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  3 P.M.—To Baker Farm by boat . . .

  Sophia saw this afternoon two great snap-turtles fighting near the new stone bridge . . . Sam Wheeler, who did not know there were snapping turtles here, says he saw opposite to his boarding-house, on the sidewalk, in New York, the other day, a green turtle which weighed seven hundred and twenty pounds . . .

(Journal, 8:402-404)

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