October 19.
October 19, 2014
The country above Littleton (plowed ground) more or less sugared with snow, the first I have seen. We find a little on the mountain-top.
The prevailing tree on this mountain, top and all, is apparently the red oak, which toward and on the top is very low and spreading. On the sides, beside red oak, are rock maple, yellow birch, lever-wood, beech, chestnut, shagbark, hemlock, striped maple, witch-hazel, etc., etc.
With a glass you can see vessels in Boston Harbor from the summit, just north of the Waltham hills.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 19, 1854
The country above Littleton. See December 16, 1857 ("Plowed grounds show white first.”)
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