Cambridge, Mass.
1909.
Nov. 7 [November 7, 1909]
(No 5)
dry (for the first time in my experience) between Concord
Turnpike & the Fitchburg Railroad. There was water in
the Glacialis but it was far below the normal level,
even for seasons of extreme drought. This pond is
now everywhere surrounded by dense beds of cat tail flags
and they have recently so encroached on the transverse
area (formerly of open water) at its northern end that
this part of the pond has become over night obliterated.
No doubt the Glacialis with Pont Pond and all the
smaller pools and waterways of the Fresh Pond
Swamps will soon be completely drained and the entire
surrounding region turned into market garden farms or
built upon. Henshaw and I were saddened at this
prospect as we discussed it to-day but what may
prove to be our last mutual glypmpse [glimpse] of many of the
dear old haunts of our early youth was at least had