on the prairie a tall, somewhat Heuchera-like flower, two feet high or more; also a lucern-like vetch, and a small Hypoxys-like flower. A very large-stemmed blue violet,—Viola Canadensis, white or whitish.
At New Ulm, June 21, eight largish and irate yellow dogs, and some smaller. That night we lay by half the night fifteen or twenty miles above Mankato. Our boat had pushed over a tree and disturbed the bats, which were beaten out. We take in a cartload of earth, then swing round the river-bars, and pull off by the capstan.
June 22. Some fifteen miles below Mankato, we were detained by a fog in the last part of the night. This was the day when the captain ran his boat on a rock near Mankato.
We see the same birds along the river as in Concord, except the grebe and the Turkey buzzard.
At this point (Red Wing, on his return journey) we may introduce the table of distances along the Mississippi River made by Thoreau on his journey up and headed by him:
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