Concord, Mass.Thoreau writes in his journal:

Cambridge, Mass. Thoreau checks out New England’s Plantation. Or, A short and true description of the commodities and discommodities of that country by Francis Higginson and Des sauvages, ou, Voyage de Samuel Champlain, de Brovage, faict en la France nouvelle, l’an mil six cens trois by Samuel de Champlain from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 292).