Thoreau writes in his journal:
Mr. Bradford finds and brings to me what I judge from a plate in Loudon to be Potentilla recta of southern Europe . . .
P.M.—Up Assabet . . .
At mid-afternoon I am caught in another deluging rain as I stand under a maple by the shore . . .
Now, in the still moonlight, the dark foliage stands almost stiff and dark against the sky. At 5 P. M. the river is nine and seven eighths inches above summer level . . .
