Skating to Bedford.

January 15

January 15, 2014

P. M. - Skated to Bedford

It has just been snowing, and this lies in shallow drifts or waves on the Great Meadows, alternate snow and ice. 

Skate into a crack, and slide on my side twenty-five feet. 

The river-channel dark and rough with fragments of old ice, — polygons of various forms, — cemented together, not strong.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, January 15, 1855

Shallow drifts or waves on the Great Meadows, alternate snow and ice. See January 26, 1860

("Pretty good skating on the Great Meadows, slightly raised and smoothed by the thaw . . . Skating, crusted snow, slosh, etc., are wont to take you by surprise.")

Skated to Bedford. See January 14, 1855 ("Skate to Baker Farm with a rapidity which astonished myself, before the wind . . . in a quarter of an hour I was three and a half miles from home without having made any particular exertion."); January 31, 1855 ("At 10 A. M., skated up the river to explore further than I had been."); February 3, 1855 ("This will deserve to be called the winter of skating.") See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, The Winter of Skating and January 21, 1853 ("In this stillness and at this distance, I hear the nine-o'clock bell in Bedford five miles off, which I might never hear in the village"); April 3, 1858 ("We paddle along all day, down to the Bedford line.")

January 15. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, January 15

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Skating to Bedford

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