As our stock of firewood and provisions had run low 
and as there seemed no hope that the woods would be again 
accessible for some time to come, we decided, early this 
morning, to return to Cambridge. This was not accomplished 
without much difficulty and labor. It took Bensen the 
entire forenoon to break a road to the cabin and the road 
from his house to the village was hardly practicable for the 
broad, heavy wood-sled on which he took us and our effects 
in the early afternoon. The drifts were six or eight feet 
deep in many places and between Peterson’s and the top of 
Punkatassett Hill they filled the road from wall to wall and 
we were obliged to take to the fields where the wind had 
blown the snow away. We left Concord at 4.26 P. M. but our 
train was held at Bedford for nearly six hours and, finding 
that it WDuld be nearly midnight before I could get horne^ I 
went into Boston and spent the night at the Parker House. 
