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

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Up Assabet with Loomis and Wilde.

  Set fire to the carburetted hydrogen from the sawdust shoal with matches, and heard it flash. It must be an interesting sight by night.

(Journal, 9:481)

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