The coldest morning this winter. Our thermometer stands at -14° at 9 A.M.; others, we hear, at 6 A.M. stood at -18°, at Gorham, N. H., -30°.
There are no loiterers in the street, and the wheels of wood wagons squeak as they have not for a long time, —actually shriek. Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber.
At 4 P.M. the thermometer is at -10°; at six it is at -14°. I was walking at five, and found it stinging cold. It stung the face.
The setting sun no sooner leaves our west windows than a solid but beautiful crystallization coats them. A solid sparkling field in the midst of each pane, with broad, flowing sheaves surrounding it.
It has been a very mild as well as open winter up to this.
At 9 o’clock P.M., thermometer at -16°. They say it did not rise above -6° to-day.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 6, 1855
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, February 6, 1855
They say it did not rise above -6° to-day. See January 23, 1857 ("I may safely say that -5° has been the highest temperature to-day”);
February 6. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, February 6
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”
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