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Boating trips on New England rivers (1884)

Fellows, Henry Parker · Boston, Cupples, Upham and company · leaf 36

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CHAPTER U. (JONCOIJI). /^UR camping place was within tlic borders of Concord.^^^ Walden Pond was accessible, and not far distant;but we did not care t(» nndertake a tramp there in thewet. We got under way again on the river aljout themiddle of the afternoon. A feAv strokes carried ns to … Fair Haven Bay, where hills rise on every side, shuttingin the [)rosi)ect with walls of living green. The river ishere, indeed, wild and })ictures(|ue, and was a favoriteresort of Thoreau. After a long, hard pidl against astrong head wind, we came to tlie old South Bridge atConcord. The river, here…

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