C. [William Ellery Channing] and I, having left our boat at Rice’s Bend last night, walk to it this forenoon on our way to Saxonville . . .

  A man fishing at the Ox-Bow said without hesitation that the stone-heaps were made by the sucker, at any rate that he had seen them made by the sucker in Charles River,—the large black sucker (not the horned one). Another said that the water rose five feet above its present level at the bridge on the edge of Framingham, and showed me about the height on the stone . . .