. Through the year with Thoreau . once, which hangperpendicularly, like organ pipes, in front of therock. They are now conducting jdownward the melt-ing ice and snow, which drips from their points witha slight clinking and lapsing sound, but when thesun has set will freeze there and add to the icicleslength. Where the icicles have reached the groundand are like thick pillars, they have a sort of annu-lar appearance, somewhat like the successive swellson the legs of tables and on bed-posts. There is per-haps a harmony between the turners taste and thelaw of nature in this instance. The shadow o
. Through the year with Thoreau . once, which hangperpendicularly, like organ pipes, in front of therock. They are now conducting jdownward the melt-ing ice and snow, which drips from their points witha slight clinking and lapsing sound, but when thesun has set will freeze there and add to the icicleslength. Where the icicles have reached the groundand are like thick pillars, they have a sort of annu-lar appearance, somewhat like the successive swellson the legs of tables and on bed-posts. There is per-haps a harmony between the turners taste and thelaw of nature in this instance. The shadow of thewater flowing or pulsating behind this transparenticy crust or these stalactites in the sun imparts asemblance of life to the whole. Journal, iii, 303. NORTH BRANCH NEAR HARRINGTONS February 27, 1852. The main river is not yetopen but in very few places, but the North Branch,which is so much more rapid, is open near Tarbellsand Harringtons, where I walked to-day, and, flow-ing with full tide bordered with ice on either side,.
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