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28 July 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  At 1.30 a thunder-shower, which was much needed, the corn having rolled and trees suffered.

  3.30 P.M.—To Climbing Fern . . . (Journal, 8:431-432).

28 July 1857. Lake Chamberlain, Maine.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

   As I remember, Hodge mistakes when he says that it “is erroneously represented on the charts, for it extends in a north-northeasterly, south-southwesterly direction about twelve miles.” He appears to be thinking of the easterly part. On the north side there is quite a clearing, as we had been advised to ascend the bare hill there for the sake of the prospect . . .
(Journal, 9:494-495)

Thoreau writes in “The Allegash and East Branch” chapter of The Maine Woods:

  When we awoke, we found a heavy dew on our blankets. I lay awake very early, and listened to the clear, shrill ah, te te, te te, te of the white-throated sparrow, repeated at short intervals, without the least variation, for half an hour, as if it could not enough express its happiness. Whether my companions heard it or not, I know not, but it was a kind of matins to me, and the event of that forenoon.

  It was a pleasant sunrise, and we had a view of the mountains in the southeast. Ktaadn appeared about southeast by south. A double-topped mountain, about southeast by east, and another portion of the same, east-southeast . . .

(The Maine Woods, 248-266)
28 July 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Conantum.

  From wall corner saw a pinkish patch on side-hill west of Baker Farm, which turned out to be epilobium, a rod across. Through the glass it was as fine as a moss, but with the naked eye it might have been mistaken for a dead pine bough . . .

(Journal, 11:64-65)
28 July 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet.

  I see what I take to be young purple finches eating mountain-ash berries (ours). The kingbirds eat currants . . .

  The black willows are the children of the river. They do not grow far from the water, not on the steep banks which the river is wearing into, not on the unconverted shore, but on the bars and banks which the river has made. A bank may soon get to be too high for it. It grows and thrives on the river-made shores and banks, and is a servant which the river uses to build up and defend its, banks and isles. It is married to the river . . .

(Journal, 12:259-260)
28 July 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  2 P.M.—Up Assabet to Annursnack . . . (Journal, 13:425).
28 June 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau starts the first term of his junior year, rooming alone in Hollis no. 31 and taking the following classes:

  • Greek composition with Cornelius C. Felton; reading Homer’s Iliad
  • Latin composition with Charles Beck with “extemporaneous translation into Latin”; reading D. Junii Juvenalis Satirae expurgatae. Accedunt notae anglicae. In usum scholae bostoniensis. Cura F. P. Leverett
  • Theology with Henry Ware; reading A view of the evidences of Christianity by William Paley and The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature by Joseph Butler
  • Mental Philosophy with Joel Giles; reading The principles of moral and political philosophy by Paley and Elements of the philosophy of the human mind by Dugald Stewart
  • English with Edward T. Channing (bi-weekly themes) and Forensics with Channing and Giles
  • French with Francis Surault
  • German with Hermann Bokum
(Thoreau’s Harvard Years, part 1:16; A Catalogue of Officers and Students of Harvard University for the Academical Year 1835-36, 16)
28 June 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The prophane never hear music; the holy ever hear it. It is God’s voice, the divine breath audible. Where it is heard, there is a sabbath. It is omnipotent; all things obey  it as they obey virtue. It is the herald of virtue. It passes by sorrow, for grief hangs its sharp on the willows.
(Journal, 1:154)
28 June 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal on 29 June:

  Yesterday the air was filled with a thick fog-like haze, so that the sun did not once shine with ardor, but everything was so tempered under this thin veil that it was a luxury merely to be outdoors,—you were less out for it . . . I saw some hills on this side the river, looking from Conantum, on which, the grass being of a yellow tinge, though the sun did not shine out on them, they had the appearance of being shone upon peculiarly . . . Riding to survey a wood-lot yesterday, I observed that a dog accompanied the wagon. Having tied the horse at the last house and entered the woods, I saw no more of the dog while there; but when riding back to the village, I saw the dog again running by the wagon, and in answer to my inquiry was told that the horse and wagon were hired and the dog always accompanied the horse. I queried whether it might happen that a dog would accompany the wagon if a strange horse were put into it; whether he would attach to an inanimate object. Methinks the driver, though a stranger, as it were added intellect to the mere animality of the horse, and the dog, not making very nice distinctions, yielded respect to the horse and equipage as if it were human. If the horse were to trot off alone without a wagon or driver, I think it doubtful if the dog would follow; if with the wagon, then the chances of his following would be increased; but if with a driver, though a stranger, I have found by experience that he would follow.
(Journal, 2:275)
28 June 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Evening. 7 P.M.—Moon more than half.

  There are meteorologists, but who keeps a record of the fairer sunsets P While men are recording the direction of the wind, they neglect to record the beauty of the sunset or the rainbow. The sun not yet set . . .

  Walden imparts to the body of the bather a remarkably chalky-white appearance, whiter than natural, tinged with blue, which, combined with its magnifying anti distorting; influence, produces a monstrous and ogre-like effect, proving, nevertheless, the purity of the water . . .

(Journal, 4:159-161)
28 June 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Nettle out a few days. Pepper-grass, a week or more. Catnep, also, a few days. We have warmer weather now again (Journal, 5:308).

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