the Thoreau Log.
9 September 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  This morning I find a little hole, three quarters of an inch or an inch over, above my small tortoise eggs, and find a young tortoise coming out (apparently in the rainy night) just beneath. It is the Sternothaerus odoratus—already has the strong scent—and now has drawn in its head and legs. I see no traces of the yoke, or what-not, attached. It may have been out of the egg some days. Only one as yet. I buried them in the garden June 15th . . .
(Journal, 7:28)

New York?, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the Albion with an excerpt from the “Visitors” chapter.

New York, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer.

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