July 13.
About $33,000 has been appropriated for the protection of Provincetown Harbor. Northeast winds the strongest.
Caught a box tortoise. It appeared to have been feeding on insects, - their wing-cases, etc., in its droppings, - also leaves.
No undertow on the bars because the shore is flat.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 13, 1855
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