November 18.
Measured a stick of round timber, probably white pine, on the cars this afternoon, -- ninety-five feet long, nine and ten-twelfths in circumference at butt, and six and two-twelfths in circumference at small end, quite straight. From Vermont.
Yarrow and tansy still. These are cold, gray days.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 18, 1852
white pine, on the cars. . , From Vermont. .See September 10, 1856 ("those masts I had seen go through Concord from Canada West . . .were rafted along Lake Erie . . . with steamers . . . and in small rafts by canal to Albany, and thence by railroad via Rutland to Portland, for the navy”). See also May 8, 1852 ("Saw a load of rock maples on a car from the country. . . They must have been brought from the northern part of Vermont, where is winter still.”)
Yarrow and tansy still. See November 18, 1855 ("Tansy still shows its yellow disks, but yarrow is particularly fresh and perfect, cold and chaste, with its pretty little dry-looking rounded white petals and green leaves.")
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