the Thoreau Log.
24 January 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  An abundance of excellent skating, the freshet that covered the meadows being frozen. Many boys and girls are skating on Mantatuket Meadow and on Merrick’s. Looking from this shore, they appear decidedly elevated,—not by their skates merely. What is the cause? Do we take the ice to be air?

  I see an abundance of caterpillars of various kinds on the ice of the meadows, many of those large, dark, hairy, with longitudinal light stripes, somewhat like the common apple one. Many of them are frozen in yet, some for two thirds their length, yet all are alive . . .

(Journal, 11:427-428)

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