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, and a brilliant anti-slavery orator and writer; and made other stops and observations which did not get into the printed volume, even if entered in the daily journal. In fragments of a diary which I have seen, Thoreau says that he and his brother left their boat at Hooksett, September 4, walked to Concord, N. H., September 5, on the 6th took the stage-coach to Plymouth, and thence on foot to Tilton's tavern in Thornton. He notes that the "mountain scenery commences on Sanbornton Square." On the 7th they were at the Franconia Notch, where they saw the "Old Man of the Mountain;" on the 8th reached Tom Crawford's at the Great Notch; and on September 10th went up Mount Washington. Returning by North Conway, they were again at Hooksett, September 12, where the fragmentary journal re-commences.

In the Tuesday's record, in The Week (here omitted), Thoreau quotes from his poem Away, Away! which was written early in July, 1839, on the Assabet River in Concord. Another poem of that summer, written July 20, The Breeze's Invitation, seems [50]