Just off the east cape of long southern bay.

December 27. 

Saturday. 

Walden is still open in one place of considerable extent, just off the east cape of long southern bay.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, December 27, 1856

Walden is still open . . .See December 27, 1852 ("Not a particle of ice in Walden to-day. Paddled across it.”); December 27, 1857 ("Walden is almost entirely skimmed over. It will probably be completely frozen over to-night.”);  see also December 24, 1858 "Those two places in middle of Walden not frozen over yet, ...”); December 24, 1859 (“There is, in all, an acre or two in Walden not yet frozen, though half of it has been frozen more than a week. ”); December 26, 1850 ("Walden not yet more than half frozen over");   December 26, 1853 (“Walden still open.”); December 29, 1855 ("Am surprised to find eight or ten acres of Walden still open . . ."); December 30, 1853 ("The pond not yet frozen entirely over; about six acres open . . .”).