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Walden Pond, A Reduced Plan, 1846 – Antique Print

Walden Pond, A Reduced Plan, 1846 — historic image
Walden Pond, A Reduced Plan, 1846. Historic image from the Boston collection.

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Walden Pond, A Reduced Plan, 1846

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Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond is the detail that sets this plan apart. He measured the pond's shoreline and depths in 1846, while living in a cabin on its shore near Concord, Massachusetts, and this reduced plan shows that work at a smaller scale. The pond, about a mile and a half from the Concord village, was a small kettle lake carved by glacial ice, and Thoreau's careful sounding of its depths and outline became part of his book *Walden* (1854). Looking at the plan alongside the text shows how closely he tied his account of the place to measured fact.

Original scan1,452 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference3g05339 Walden Pond_

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