A copious rain, raising the river a little

July 16. 

Sium out not long. 

I see many young shiners (?) (they have the longitudinal bar), one to two and a half inches long, and young breams two or three inches long and quite broad.


Geum Virginianum, apparently two or three days.

July 16.

See several bullfrogs lying fully out on pads at 5 p. m. They trump well these nights. 

It is remarkable how a copious rain, raising the river a little, flattens down the heart-leaf and other weeds at bathing-places.

H. D.  Thoreau, Journal, July 16, 1856

Shiners (they have the longitudinal bar), See March 29, 1854 ("poised over the sand on invisible fins, the outlines of a shiner". . . "distinct longitudinal light-colored line midway along their sides and a darker line below it”); July 17, 1856 ("They have brighter golden irides, all the abdomen conspicuously pale-golden, the back and half down the sides pale-brown, a broad, distinct black band along sides (which methinks marks the shiner), and comparatively transparent beneath behind vent."); December 18, 1858 (“They are little shiners with the dark longitudinal stripe”)

Bullfrogs ... See July 17, 1860 ("Clean and handsome bullfrogs. . .sit imperturbable out on the stones all around the pond.”)