Thoreau writes in his journal:
Rain, carrying off the snow and making slosh of the lower half of it. It is perhaps the wettest walking we ever have (Journal, 4:474).
Concord, Mass. William Ellery Channing writes in his journal:
But my brains to-day, are in a truly helpless condition . . . Still, we must live through theses days, must walk & talk, & mark. Rains hard & blows (William Ellery Channing notebooks and journals. Houghton Library, Harvard University).
