Thoreau writes in his journal:
P.M. under Barn Bluff . . .
The double path on bluff made by 2, one a little higher & fainter, ceasing near end on slope, like a regular 2 wheel track, 3 feet apart, the lower the deepest. The old Indian mound, say 1 rod x 3 feet & the new 2 x 4, 8 or 10 years old. Red Wing. According to [Nathan H.] Parker’s Minnesota Handbook [for] 1856-57, there were but 3 white families in St. Paul in Spring of 1847; in 1857 10,000. Principal capital invested in groceries, dry & Indian goods. (Make time & truck along the Minnesota).
Horace Mann Jr. writes to his mother Mary:
Today has been a very hot day, though there was, as there always is, a strong wind blowing from some quarter or other, which makes the heat much easier to bear.
This morning we walked over back of the town onto the bluffs & found a good many strawberries growing wild, which we ate. little while after dinner I went in swimming in the River and about two hours after that Mr. Thoreau went in. We walked around the bluff today.
We shall leave here I suppose on Wednesday afternoon [26 June], and we expect to get a letter before that time from home which will be the last one. I shall not send this letter till just before I go, and as I do not think of any-thing more to say I will bid you Good-night.
From your loving son
Horace Mann
