the Thoreau Log.
28 July 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Clethra. Methinks the season culminated about the middle of this month,—that the year was of indefinite promise before, but that, after the first intense heats, we postponed the fulfillment of many of our hopes for this year, and, having as it were attained the ridge of the summer, commenced to descend the long slope toward winter, the afternoon and down-hill of the year.
(Journal, 6:413)

Boston, Mass. The Boston Daily Evening Traveller prints an excerpt from the “Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors” chapter of Walden.

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