Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Measuring the River


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).

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

The rain of one day. See September 12, 1860 ("Very heavy rain to-day (equinoctial), raising the river suddenly.")

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