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How cheerful these cold but bright white waving 

 tufts! They reflect all the sun's light without a par- 

 ticle of his heat, or yellow rays. A thousand such 

 tufts now catch up the sun and send to us his light 

 but not heat. His heat is being steadily withdrawn 

 from us. Light without heat is getting to be the pre- 

 vailing phenomenon of the day now. 



Journal, xii, 391, 392. 



November 8, 1859. The tufts of purplish withered 

 andropogon in Witherell Glade are still as fair as 

 ever, soft and trembling and bending from the wind; 

 of a very light mouse-color seen from the side of the 

 sun, and as delicate as the most fragile ornaments 

 of a lady's bonnet; but looking toward the sun they 

 are a brilliant white, each polished hair (of the pap- 

 pus.f*) reflecting the November sun without its heats, 

 not in the least yellowish or brown like the golden- 

 rods and asters. 



Journal, xii, 442. 



