The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 4: May 1, 1852 February 27, 1853The smell of our fresh meadows, from which the ¿ood has in some measure receded, reminds me of the scent of salt marshes, to which it corresponds. A coarse grass is starting up, all the greener and more luxuriant for the freshet, one foot high. I hear a new kind of stertorous sound from the meadow, a new frog? The ¿owers (male) of the maple by the bridge are all dried up, and its buds are just expanding into leaves, while red maples are in their ¿owering prime. I find by the leaves that this is probably a white maple. The purple finch is come to Minott's neighborhood. I saw it. I rarely see it elsewhere than about R. W. E.'s. Are they not attracted hither by his fir trees? (i think it was not the tree sparrow which I used to hear in rainy weather.) E. Wood, Senior, says it was in 1818 the river was so high, and that Sted. Buttrick marked it, but thinks the last ¿ood an inch or two higher. Wood has observed that the North River will rise first, and he has seen the South Branch ¿owing up-stream faster than ever he saw it ¿owing down. Tells a story of barrels that ¿oated once from where Loring's factory is to the old Lee or Barrett house meadow.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.