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  Horace Mann tells me that he saw a painted turtle in this town eating a unio, in our river, in the shell, it evidently having just caught and opened it . . . (Journal, 14:101-102).

  Observed from cars at 7.30 A.M. the dew, or fog rather, on the fine grass in meadows,—a dirty white, which, one of these mornings, will be frozen to a white frost . . . Walked from Mason Village over the mountain tops to Peterboro. Saw, sailing over Mason Village about 10 A. M., a white-headed and white-tailed eagle with black wings,—a grand sight . . .

  Went, still across lots, to Peterboro village, which we could not see from the mountain. But first we had seen the Lyndeboro Mountain, north of these two,—partly in Greenfield,—and further Crotched Mountain, and in the northeast Uncannunuc. Descended where, as usual, the forest had been burned formerly,—tall bleached masts still standing, making a very wild and agreeably [sic] scenery . . .

  9 P.M.—There is now approaching from the west one of the heaviest thunder-showers (apparently) and with the most incessant flashes that I remember to have seen . . . Before this, in the afternoon, to Hollowell place via Hubbard Bath, crossing the river . . .

  Mrs. Charles C. (?) Frost showed me a painted list of the flowers of B., furnished by him to a newspaper in B. some years since. He saws he finds Aster simplex and A. ptarmicoides there (according to Oakes the latter is not found in New England out of Vermont), the latter now covered by the high water of the river . . .

  A.M.—Walked down the railroad about a mile, returning partly by river-bank.

  The depot is on the site of “Thunderbolt’s” house. He was a Scotch highwayman. Called himself Dr. Wilson (?) when here. The prevailing polygonum in B. was a new one to me . . .

  Frost said that Dr. Kane left B. the morning of the day I arrived, and had given him a list of arctic plants brought home by him, which he showed me . . .