Walden not melted about shore.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 26, 1852
Walden not melted about shore. See April 14, 1852 ("Walden is only melted two or three rods from the north shore yet. It is a good thermometer of the annual heats, because, having no outlet nor inlet on the surface, it has no stream to wear it away more or less rapidly or early as the water may be higher or lower, and also, being so deep, it is not warmed through by a transient change of temperature"): April 19, 1852 ("Walden is clear of ice. The ice left it yesterday, then, the 18th.[the latest in Thoreau's records]") See also March 26, 1857 ("Walden is already on the point of breaking up. In the shallow bays it is melted six or eight rods out, and the ice looks dark and soft."); March 11, 1861 ("t will be open then the 12th or 13th. This is earlier than I ever knew it to open. "); April 18, 1856 ("I have observed its breaking up of different years commencing in ’45, and the average date has been April 4th")and A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Ice-Out
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