An Indian soapstone pot.

June 7. 

June 7, 2012

Surveying for Sam. Pierce. Found piece of an Indian soapstone pot.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 7, 1852

See March 20, 1858 (“I had noticed from the Cliff by Lee's road an elevated sandy point above Pole Brook which I said must be Indian ground, and, walking there, I found a piece of a soapstone pot.”); March 28, 1859 (“[I]f the knolls in the meadows are washed by a freshet where they have been plowed the previous fall, the soil will be taken away lower down and the stones left, — the arrow heads, etc., and soapstone pottery amid them”);  See also March 28, 1859 (“I have not decided whether I had better publish my experience in searching for arrowheads in three volumes, with plates and an index, or try to compress it into one. ”);  August 22, 1860 ("I never find a remarkable Indian relic but I have first divined its existence, and planned the discovery of it. Frequently I have told myself distinctly what it was to be before I found it. “); and Tahatowan’s Scarab

June 7. See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, June 7

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

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