Thoreau writes in his journal:
River three and one fourth inches below summer level . Why is it only three eighteenths of an inch lower than last Sunday (April 29)? For we are in the midst of a remarkable drought, and I think that if there had been any rain within a week near the sources of the river I should have heard of it. Is it that these innumerable sources of the river which the springs in the meadows are, are able to keep up the supply? . . .
2 P.M.—To Second Division.
74°; wind southeast; and hazy . . .
