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  No dew even where I keep my boat. The driest night yet, threatening the sultriest day. Yet I see big crystalline drops at the tips or the bases of the pontederia, leaves. The few lilies begin to open about 5 . . .

  P.M.—To Conantum.

  The warmest day yet. For the last two days I have worn nothing about my neck. This change or putting off of clothing is, methinks, as good an evidence of the increasing warmth of the weather as meteorological instruments. I thought it was hot weather perchance, when, a month ago, I slept with a window wide open and laid aside a comfortable, but by and by I found that I had got two windows open, and to-night two windows and the door are far from enough . . .

  P.M.—To Walden, etc.

  Mitchella in Deep Cut woods, probably a day or two. Its scent is agreeable and refreshing, between the mayflower and rum cherry barb, or like peachstone meats . . . The effect of the pond on its shore while standing at a great height is remarkable. Though considerably lower than it was, it appears much higher in some places, where it has worn away a barrier between itself and a meadow and so made the water deeper there.

  Rambled up the grassy hollows in the sprout-lands north (?) of Goose Pond . . .

  On an apple at R.W.E.’s a small pewee’s nest . . . (Journal, 7:429).

  Much pine pollen is washed up on the northwest side of the pond. Must it not have come from pines at a distance. Very hot day, as was yesterday,—98° at 2 P.M., 99° at 3, and 128° in sun. Nighthawks numerously squeak at 5 P.M. . . .

  On the 12 ult I forwarded the two books to California, observing your directions in every particular, and I trust that Uncle Sam will discharge his duty faithfully. While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype—which my friends think is pretty good—though better looking than I.

  Yrs
  Henry D Thoreau

  At 12 M. it is only 59º above zero, and I am surprised to hear some toads ring . . .

  2 P.M.—To Little Truro . . .

  Started up a nighthawk in the dry field near the pondhole. Probably they affect these dry and gravelly fields, as at Truro, where the small fescue grass grows . . .