Ellen Sewall writes to her father Edmund Quincy Sewall Sr. on 31 July:
Besides numerous other little walks which I shall not now mention, we have visited a hill in the neighborhood called Anursnuck. We went by water three miles up the North Branch, which was the pleasantest part of the excursion. There is a fine view of the neighboring town from the top of the hill, and of the town of Concord, too. We found some berries there. We found the sail back still more pleasant than the sail there, as it was nearly sundown and quite cool and comfortable.
(transcript in The Thoreau Society Archives at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, Lincoln, Mass.; MS, private owner)
