September 15.
In morning river is three feet two and a half plus inches above summer level. Thus it reached its height the third day after the rain; had risen on the morning of the third day about thirty inches on account of the rain of one day (the 12th).
In morning river is three feet two and a half plus inches above summer level. Thus it reached its height the third day after the rain; had risen on the morning of the third day about thirty inches on account of the rain of one day (the 12th).
Joe Smith's man brings me this forenoon a fish hawk which was shot on George Brook's pigeon-stand last evening. It is evidently a female of this year, full grown. It probably lit there merely for a perch.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, September 15, 1860
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