. Through the year with Thoreau. WALDEN POND IN MAY AND IN DECEMBER I xxxi ] other people. Ripple Lake, Cardinal Shore, BitternCliff, Owl-Nest Swamp, Arethusa Meadow, Curly-Pate Hill, Purple Utricularia Bay, Bidens Brook,Hubbards Close, — these and many similar namesare capitalized and otherwise dignified in his journalrecords just as if he were speaking of London or Parisor New York. But where were these places .^^ It wasuseless to appeal to residents of Concord. Theymight as well have been situated in Siberia or Pata-gonia. Even persons still living who had knownThoreau personally and had oc
. Through the year with Thoreau. WALDEN POND IN MAY AND IN DECEMBER I xxxi ] other people. Ripple Lake, Cardinal Shore, BitternCliff, Owl-Nest Swamp, Arethusa Meadow, Curly-Pate Hill, Purple Utricularia Bay, Bidens Brook,Hubbards Close, — these and many similar namesare capitalized and otherwise dignified in his journalrecords just as if he were speaking of London or Parisor New York. But where were these places .^^ It wasuseless to appeal to residents of Concord. Theymight as well have been situated in Siberia or Pata-gonia. Even persons still living who had knownThoreau personally and had occasionally been withhim on some of his walks were hopelessly in the darkas to most of them. Ellery Channing, author of alife of Thoreau, and his most frequent walking com-panion, who lingered forty years after the death ofhis friend and associate, was appealed to in connec-tion with two or three localities, but his memory wasafterwards proved to be sadly at fault. It was only by a careful comparison of all the jour-nal referen
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