. Through the year with Thoreau. , 165, 167, 168. [ 114 ] FROST CRYSTALS December 21, 1854. Walden is frozen over, ap-parently about two inches thick. It is very thicklycovered with what C. calls ice-rosettes, , thosesmall pinches of crystallized snow, — as thickly asif it had snowed in that form. I think it is a sort ofhoar frost on the ice. Journal, vii, 88. January 1, 1856. On the ice at Walden are verybeautiful great leaf crystals in great profusion. Theice is frequently thickly covered with them for manyrods. They seem to be connected with the rosettes,— a running together of them. Th
. Through the year with Thoreau. , 165, 167, 168. [ 114 ] FROST CRYSTALS December 21, 1854. Walden is frozen over, ap-parently about two inches thick. It is very thicklycovered with what C. calls ice-rosettes, , thosesmall pinches of crystallized snow, — as thickly asif it had snowed in that form. I think it is a sort ofhoar frost on the ice. Journal, vii, 88. January 1, 1856. On the ice at Walden are verybeautiful great leaf crystals in great profusion. Theice is frequently thickly covered with them for manyrods. They seem to be connected with the rosettes,— a running together of them. They look like a looseweb of small white feathers springing from a tuft ofdown, as if a feather bed had been shaken over theice. They are, on a close examination, surprisinglyperfect leaves, like ferns, only very broad for theirlength and commonly more on one side the midribthan the other. They are so thin and fragile that theymelt under your breath while looking closely at them. Journal, viii, 77. « ^ m ? r-- ~**7%ijiH w i. C 115 ] December 23, 1837. In the side of the high bankby the Leaning Hemlocks, there were some curiouscrystalhzations. Wherever the water, or othercauses, had formed a hole in the bank, its throat andouter edge, like the entrance to a citadel of the oldentime, bristled with a glistening ice armor. In oneplace you might see minute ostrich feathers, whichseemed the waving plumes of the warriors filing intothe fortress, in another the glancing fan-shapedbanners of the Lilliputian host, and in another theneedle-shaped particles, collected into bundles resem-bling the plumes of the pine, might pass for a pha-lanx of spears. The whole hill was like an immensequartz rock, with minute crystals sparkling frominnumerable crannies. I tried to fancy that therewas a disposition in these crystallizations to take theforms of the contiguous foliage. Journal, i, 21, 22. C 116 ] ARCHITECTURE OF THE SNOW December 25, 1851. A wind is now blowing thelight snow into drifts,
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