Thoreau writes in his journal:
9 P.M.—There is now approaching from the west one of the heaviest thunder-showers (apparently) and with the most incessant flashes that I remember to have seen . . . Before this, in the afternoon, to Hollowell place via Hubbard Bath, crossing the river . . .
Portland, Maine. The Portland Transcript prints an excerpt from the “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” chapter of Walden.