Hen Toes

• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Fair Haven; Haven Hill; Round Hill
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20320878

Accompanying Journal Entry: "Clear, but very cold and windy for the season. Northerly wind; smokes blown southerly. Ground frozen harder still; but probably now and hereafter what ground freezes at night will in great part melt by middle of day. However, it is so cold this afternoon that there is no melting of the ground throughout the day. The names of localities on the Sudbury River, the south or main branch of Concord or Musketaquid River, beginning at the mouth of the Assabet, are the Rock (at mouth), Merrick's Pasture, Lee's Hill, Bridge, Hubbard Shore, Clamshell Hill and fishing-place, Nut Meadow Brook, Hollowell Place and Bridge, Fair Haven Hill and Cliffs, Conantum opposite, Fair Haven Pond and Cliff and Baker Farm, Pole Brook, Lee's and Bridge, Farrar's or Otter Swamp, Bound Rock, Rice's Hill and As [sic] Isle, the Pantry, Ware Hill, Sherman's Bridge and Round Hill, Great Sudbury Meadow and Tall's Isle, Causeway Bridges, Larned Brook, the Chestnut House, Pelham Pond, the Rapids. I saw yesterday in Hubbard's sumach meadow a bunch of dried grass with a few small leaves inmixed, which had lain next the ground under the snow, probably the nest of a mouse or mole. P.M. To young willow-row near Hunt's Pond road. Here is skating again, and there was some yesterday, the meadows being frozen where they had opened, though the water is fast going down. It is a thin ice of one to two inches, one to three feet above the old, with yellowish water between. However, it is narrow dodging between the great cakes of the ice which has been broken up. The whole of the broad meadows is a rough, irregular checker-board of great cakes a rod square or more, -- arctic enough to look at. The willow-row does not begin to look bright yet. The top two or three feet are red as usual at a distance, the lower parts a rather dull green. Inspecting a branch, I find that the bark is shrunk and wrinkled, and of course it will not peel. Probably when it shines it will be tense and smooth, all its pores filled. Staples said the other day ...