Thoreau writes in his journal:
At Natural History Library. Holbrook makes the Emys terrapin to be found from Rhode Island to Florida and South America . . .
5 P.M.—Take cars for Portland. Very hot and dusty; as much need of a veil in the cars to exclude cinders as in the woods to keep off mosquitoes . . .
Thoreau writes in “The Allegash and East Branch” chapter of The Maine Woods:
I STARTED on my third excursion to the Maine woods Monday, July 20, 1857, with one companion, arriving at Bangor the next day at noon. We had hardly left the steamer, when we passed Molly Molasses in the street. As long as she lives, the Penobscots may be considered extant as a tribe . . .
