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23 November 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  George Minott tells me that sixty years ago wood was only two or three dollars a cord here—and some of that hickory . . .

  As I sail the unexplored sea of Concord, many a dell and swamp and wooded hill is my Ceram and Amboyna . . . (Journal, 14:260-263).

23 October 1838. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Nestor’s simple repast after the rescue of Machaon is a fit subject for poetry. The woodcutter may sit down to his cold victuals, the hero to soldier’s fare, and the wild Arab to his dried dates and figs, without offense; but not so a modern gentleman to his dinner.
(Journal, 1:61)
23 October 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  It is never too late to learn. I observed to-day the Irishman who helped me survey twisting the branch of a birch for a withe, and before he cut it off; and also, wishing to stick a tall, smooth pole in the ground, cut a notch in the side of it by which to drive it with a hatchet.
(Journal, 3:80)
23 October 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Conantum.

  This may be called an Indian-summer day. It is quite hazy withal, and the mountains invisible. I see a horehound turned lake or steel-claret color . . .

  My friend is one whom I meet, who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than I am. We do not speak, we cannot communicate, till we find that we are recognized . . .

(Journal, 4:396-397)
23 October 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Down railroad to chestnut wood on Pine Hill . . .

  I go through Brooks’s Hollow. The hazels bare, only here and there a few sere, curled leaves on them. The red cherry is bare. The blue flag seed-vessels at Walden are bursting,—six closely packed brown rows . . .

(Journal, 5:447-450)
23 October 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Thaddeus W. Harris:

Sir,

  I return herewith the “Bhagvat Geeta.” Will you please send me the “Vishnoo Purana” a single volume—translated by Wilson.

Yrs respecty

Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 346)
23 October 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet . . .

  I can find no bright leaves now in the woods. Witch-hazel, etc., are withered, turned brown, or yet green. See by the droppings in the woods where small migrating birds have roosted . . .

(Journal, 10:123-124)
23 October 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Ledum Swamp.

  One tells me that he saw geese go over Wayland the 17th . . .

  A man at work on the Ledum Pool, draining it, says that, when they had ditched about six feet deep, or to the bottom, near the edge of this swamp, they came to old flags, and he thought that the whole swamp was once a pond and the flags grew by the edge of it . . .

(Journal, 11:240-242)
23 October 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Anthony Wright tells me that he cut a pitch pine on Damon’s land between the Peter Haynes road and his old farm, about ’41, in which he counted two hundred and seventeen rings, which was therefore older than Concord, and one of the primitive forest . . .

  Melvin thinks that a fox would not on an average weigh more than ten pounds . . .

(Journal, 14:167-168)
23 October. Concord, Mass. 1855.

Thoreau writes in his journal: “P. M. – To Saw Mill Brook… Going through what was E. Hosmer’s muck-hole pond, now almost entirely dry, the surface towards the shore is covered with a dry crust more or less cracked, which crackles under my feet… Cousin Charles writes that his horse drew 5286 pounds up the hill from Hale’s factory, at Cattle-Show in Haverhill the other day” (Journal, 7:512-5).

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