Usually the woods are fringed with low intervale and meadow behind. I am told that in the cellars of St. Paul there is stone enough to complete the building, and the cellar wall is often left perfectly perpendicular and smooth-faced [with this stone].
June 19. Thoreau says "the Illinois man calls the vine we see, yellow fanilla, from the color of its root." Speaking of wild pigeons, he says he finds from five to three young in its nests; says "they here feed on the pea-vines, which are swelling and sprouting (purple flowers)." He adds that the European hop will not flourish here.
Good river from New Ulm to—? Much more bare bluff and plain to-day, commonly bare. Great bends in this river; by the channel two hundred and fifty or three hundred miles to Redwood, but not more than one hundred and twenty miles by land in a straight line. We see ducks, a rail? the Amorpha in bloom,—a dark violet purple. The pigeons seem straggling here. The Illinois man once lived where he could hear
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