the Thoreau Log.
14 February 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Higginson told me yesterday of a large tract near Fayal and near Pico (Mountain), covered with the reindeer (?) (as I suggested and he assented) lichens, very remarkable and desolate, extending for miles . . .

  It is a fine, somewhat springlike day. The ice is softening so that skates begin to cut in, and numerous caterpillars are now crawling about on the ice and snow . . .

(Journal, 9:254-255)

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