Rise and fall of the river under the ice. II.

January 25. 

The river has gone down about eight inches, and the ice still adhering to the shore all about the meadows slants downward for some four or five feet till it meets the water, and it is there cracked, often letting the water up to overflow it, so that it is hard to get off and on in some places.

That channel ice of the 22d, lifted up, looks thin, thus:

The edges of the outside portions are more lifted up now, apparently by the weight of the water on them. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 25, 1859



See February 1, 1855 ("Apparently the thin recent ice of the night, which connects the main body with the shore, bends and breaks with the rising of the mass")