Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:
This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw two men sawing down a noble pine beneath, about forty rods off. I resolved to watch it till it fell . . . It towered up a hundred feet as I afterward found by measurement, one of the tallest probably in the township and straight as an arrow, but slanting a little toward the hillside, its top seen against the frozen river and the hills of Conantum . . .
I went down and measured it. It was about four feet in diameter where it was sawed, about one hundred feet long. Before I had reached it the axemen had already half divested it of its branches.
Lincoln, Mass. Thoreau lectures on “An Excursion to Canada” at the Centre School House for the Lincoln Lyceum (Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995, 201-202).
Cocord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal, probably on 1 January 1852, though the entry is dated 31 December 1851:
The pine I saw fall yesterday [meaning 30 December] measured to-day one hundred and five feet, and was about ninety-four years old. There was one still larger lying beside it, one hundred and fifteen feet long, ninety-six years old, four feet diameter the longest way.
