A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,—the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so. This council was to be continued for two or three days,—the payment to be made the second day; and another payment to other bands a little higher up, on the Yellow Medicine (a tributary of the Minnesota), a few days thereafter.

In the afternoon, the half-naked Indians performed a dance, at the request of the Governor, for our amusement and their own benefit; and then we took leave of them, and of the officials who had come to treat with them.

Excuse these pencil marks, but my inkstand is unscrewable, and I can only direct my letter at the bar. I could tell you more, and perhaps more interesting things, if I had time. I am considerably better than when I left home, but still far from well.

Our faces are already set toward home. Will you please let my sister know that we shall probably start for Milwaukee and Mackinaw in a day or two (or as soon as we hear from home) via Prairie du Chien, and not La Crosse.

I am glad to hear that you have written Cholmondeley,[104] as it relieves me of some responsibility.

The tour described in this long letter was the first and last that Thoreau ever made west of the Mohawk Valley, though his friend Channing had early visited the great prairies, and lived in log cabins of Illinois, or sailed on the chain of great lakes, by which Thoreau made a part of this journey. It was proposed that Channing should accompany him this time, as he had in the tour through Lower Canada, and along Cape Cod, as well as in the journeys through the Berkshire and Catskill mountains, and down the Hudson; but some misunderstanding or temporary inconvenience prevented. The actual comrade was young Horace Mann, eldest son of the school-reformer and statesman of that name,—a silent, earnest, devoted naturalist, who died early. The place where his party met the Indians—only a few months before the Minnesota massacre of 1862—was in the county of Redwood, in the southwest of the State, where now is a thriving village of 1500 people, and no buffaloes within five hundred miles. Red Wing, whence the letter was written, is below St. Paul, on the Mississippi, and was even then a considerable town,—now a city of 7000 people. The Civil War had lately begun, and the whole North was in the first flush of its uprising in defense of the Union,—for which Thoreau, in spite of his earlier defiance of government (for its alliance with slavery), was as zealous as any soldier. He returned in July, little benefited by the journey, of which he did not take his usual sufficiency of notes, and to which there is little allusion in his books. Nor does it seem that he visited on the way his correspondent since January, 1856,—C. H. Greene, of Rochester, Michigan, who had never seen him in Concord. The opinion of Thoreau himself concerning this journey will be found in his next letter to Daniel Ricketson.

TO DANIEL RICKETSON (AT NEW BEDFORD).

Concord, August 15, 1861.

Friend Ricketson,—When your last letter was written I was away in the far Northwest, in search of health. My cold turned to bronchitis, which made me a close prisoner almost up to the moment of my starting on that journey, early in May. As I had an incessant cough, my doctor told me that I must "clear out,"—to the West Indies, or elsewhere,—so I selected Minnesota. I returned a few weeks ago, after a good deal of steady traveling, considerably, yet not essentially, better; my cough still continuing. If I don't mend very quickly, I shall be obliged to go to another climate again very soon.

My ordinary pursuits, both indoors and out, have been for the most part omitted, or seriously interrupted,—walking, boating, scribbling, etc. Indeed, I have been sick so long that I have almost forgotten what it is to be well; and yet I feel that it is in all respects only my envelope. Channing and Emerson are as well as usual; but Alcott, I am sorry to say, has for some time been more or less confined by a lameness, perhaps of a neuralgic character, occasioned by carrying too great a weight on his back while gardening.

On returning home, I found various letters awaiting me; among others, one from Cholmondeley, and one from yourself.

Of course I am sufficiently surprised to hear of your conversion;[105] yet I scarcely know what to say about it, unless that, judging by your account, it appears to me a change which concerns yourself peculiarly, and will not make you more valuable to mankind. However, perhaps I must see you before I can judge.

Remembering your numerous invitations, I write this short note now, chiefly to say that, if you are to be at home, and it will be quite agreeable to you, I will pay you a visit next week, and take such rides or sauntering walks with you as an invalid may.

The visit was made, and we owe to it the preservation of the latest portraiture of Thoreau, who, at his friend's urgency, sat to a photographer in New Bedford; and thus we have the full-bearded likeness of August, 1861; from which, also, and from personal recollection, Mr. Walton Ricketson made the fine profile medallion reproduced in photogravure for this volume.

TO DANIEL RICKETSON (AT NEW BEDFORD).

Concord, October 14, 1861.

Friend Ricketson,—I think that, on the whole, my health is better than when you were here; but my faith in the doctors has not increased. I thank you all for your invitation to come to New Bedford, but I suspect that it must still be warmer here than there; that, indeed, New Bedford is warmer than Concord only in the winter, and so I abide by Concord.

September was pleasanter and much better for me than August, and October has thus far been quite tolerable. Instead of riding on horseback, I ride in a wagon about every other day. My neighbor, Mr. E. R. Hoar, has two horses, and he, being away for the most part this fall, has generously offered me the use of one of them; and, as I notice, the dog throws himself in, and does scouting duty.

I am glad to hear that you no longer chew, but eschew, sugar-plums. One of the worst effects of sickness is, that it may get one into the habit of taking a little something—his bitters, or sweets, as if for his bodily good—from time to time, when he does not need it. However, there is no danger of this if you do not dose even when you are sick.

I went with a Mr. Rodman, a young man of your town, here the other day, or week, looking at farms for sale, and rumor says that he is inclined to buy a particular one. Channing says that he received his book, but has not got any of yours.

It is easy to talk, but hard to write.

From the worst of all correspondents,

Henry D. Thoreau.

No later letter than this was written by Thoreau's own hand; for he was occupied all the winter of 1861-62, when he could write, in preparing his manuscripts for the press. Nothing appeared before his death, but in June, 1862, Mr. Fields, then editing the Atlantic, printed "Walking,"—the first of three essays which came out in that magazine the same year. Nothing of Thoreau's had been accepted for the Atlantic since 1858, when he withdrew the rest of "Chesuncook," then coming out in its pages, because the editor (Mr. Lowell) had made alterations in the manuscript. In April, just before his death, the Atlantic printed a short and characteristic sketch of Thoreau by Bronson Alcott, and in August, Emerson's funeral oration, given in the parish church of Concord. During the last six months of his illness, his sister and his friends wrote letters for him, as will be seen by the two that follow.

SOPHIA THOREAU TO DANIEL RICKETSON (AT NEW BEDFORD).

Concord, December 19, 1861.

Mr. Ricketson:

Dear Sir,—Thank you for your friendly interest in my dear brother. I wish that I could report more favorably in regard to his health. Soon after your visit to Concord, Henry commenced riding, and almost every day he introduced me to some of his familiar haunts, far away in the thick woods, or by the ponds; all very new and delightful to me. The air and exercise which he enjoyed during the fine autumn days were a benefit to him; he seemed stronger, had a good appetite, and was able to attend somewhat to his writing; but since the cold weather has come, his cough has increased, and he is able to go out but seldom. Just now he is suffering from an attack of pleurisy, which confines him wholly to the house. His spirits do not fail him; he continues in his usual serene mood, which is very pleasant for his friends as well as himself. I am hoping for a short winter and early spring, that the invalid may again be out of doors.

I am sorry to hear of your indisposition, and trust that you will be well again soon. It would give me pleasure to see some of your newspaper articles, since you possess a hopeful spirit. My patience is nearly exhausted. The times look very dark. I think the next soldier who is shot for sleeping on his post should be Gen. McClellan. Why does he not do something in the way of fighting? I despair of ever living under the reign of Sumner or Phillips.

BRONSON ALCOTT TO DANIEL RICKETSON (AT NEW BEDFORD).

Concord, January 10, 1862.

Dear Friend,—You have not been informed of Henry's condition this winter, and will be sorry to hear that he grows feebler day by day, and is evidently failing and fading from our sight. He gets some sleep, has a pretty good appetite, reads at intervals, takes notes of his readings, and likes to see his friends, conversing, however, with difficulty, as his voice partakes of his general debility. We had thought this oldest inhabitant of our Planet would have chosen to stay and see it fairly dismissed into the Chaos (out of which he has brought such precious jewels,—gifts to friends, to mankind generally, diadems for fame to coming followers, forgetful of his own claims to the honors) before he chose simply to withdraw from the spaces and times he has adorned with the truth of his genius. But the masterly work is nearly done for us here. And our woods and fields are sorrowing, though not in sombre, but in robes of white, so becoming to the piety and probity they have known so long, and soon are to miss. There has been none such since Pliny, and it will be long before there comes his like; the most sagacious and wonderful Worthy of his time, and a marvel to coming ones.

I write at the suggestion of his sister, who thought his friends would like to be informed of his condition to the latest date.

Ever yours and respectfully,

A. Bronson Alcott.

The last letter of Henry Thoreau, written by the hand of his sister, was sent to Myron Benton, a young literary man then living in Dutchess County, New York, who had written a grateful letter to the author of "Walden" (January 6, 1862), though quite unacquainted with him. Mr. Benton said that the news of Thoreau's illness had affected him as if it were that "of a personal friend whom I had known a long time," and added: "The secret of the influence by which your writings charm me is altogether as intangible, though real, as the attraction of Nature herself. I read and reread your books with ever fresh delight. Nor is it pleasure alone; there is a singular spiritual healthiness with which they seem imbued,—the expression of a soul essentially sound, so free from any morbid tendency." After mentioning that his own home was in a pleasant valley, once the hunting-ground of the Indians, Mr. Benton said:—

"I was in hope to read something more from your pen in Mr. Conway's Dial,[106] but only recognized that fine pair of Walden twinlets. Of your two books, I perhaps prefer the 'Week'—but after all, 'Walden' is but little less a favorite. In the former, I like especially those little snatches of poetry interspersed throughout. I would like to ask what progress you have made in a work some way connected with natural history,—I think it was on Botany,—which Mr. Emerson told me something about in a short interview I had with him two years ago at Poughkeepsie.... If you should feel perfectly able at any time to drop me a few lines, I would like much to know what your state of health is, and if there is, as I cannot but hope, a prospect of your speedy recovery."

Two months and more passed before Thoreau replied; but his habit of performing every duty, whether of business or courtesy, would not excuse him from an answer, which was this:—

TO MYRON B. BENTON (AT LEEDSVILLE, N. Y.).

Concord, March 21, 1862.

Dear Sir,—I thank you for your very kind letter, which, ever since I received it, I have intended to answer before I died, however briefly. I am encouraged to know, that, so far as you are concerned, I have not written my books in vain. I was particularly gratified, some years ago, when one of my friends and neighbors said, "I wish you would write another book,—write it for me." He is actually more familiar with what I have written than I am myself.

The verses you refer to in Conway's Dial were written by F. B. Sanborn of this town. I never wrote for that journal.

I am pleased when you say that in the "Week" you like especially "those little snatches of poetry interspersed through the book," for these, I suppose, are the least attractive to most readers. I have not been engaged in any particular work on Botany, or the like, though, if I were to live, I should have much to report on Natural History generally.

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Yours truly,
Henry D. Thoreau,
bySophia E. Thoreau.

He died May 6, 1862; his mother died March 12, 1872, and his sister Sophia, October, 1876. With the death of his aunt, Maria Thoreau, nearly twenty years after her beloved nephew, the last person of the name in America (or perhaps in England) passed away.

APPENDIX

The letters of Thoreau, early or late, which did not reach me in time to be used in the original edition of this book, and have since appeared in print here and there, are included either in order of their date in the preceding pages (in the case of the additional Ricketson letters) or in this Appendix. I owe the right to use the following correspondence to Mr. E. H. Russell of Worcester and to Dr. S. A. Jones of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who first obtained from the family of Calvin H. Greene of Rochester, Michigan, the Greene letters, five in number, all short, but characteristic. Dr. Jones printed these in a small edition at Jamaica, N. Y., and along with them some letters of Miss Sophia Thoreau to Mr. Greene, and portions of Greene's Diary during his two visits to Concord in September, 1863, and August, 1874. In these papers he left initials, or letters commonly used for unknown quantities, to stand for certain names occurring there. "X." and "X. Y. Z." in this Diary, and in Miss Thoreau's letters, signify Ellery Channing, to whom in March, 1863, Mr. Greene had sent the manzanita cane, headed with buffalo-horn and tipped with silver, which he had made with his own hands and intended for Thoreau, and which Mr. Channing gave to me, as the mutual friend of the two Concord poets. In the Diary I am "Mr. S." This Diary and the letters of Miss Thoreau supply some useful facts for a Thoreau biography, which this collection of Familiar Letters was meant to be,—a biography largely in the words of its subject. Notice is taken of such facts in footnotes.

The earlier letters to Isaac Hecker, afterwards known as Father Hecker of New York, grew out of an acquaintance formed with him while he was living at Mrs. Thoreau's, and taking lessons of the late George Bradford, brother of Mrs. Ripley. They were subsequent to Hecker's brief stay at Brook Farm and Fruitlands, and when he was studying to be a Catholic priest. He cherished the vain hope of converting Thoreau to his own newly acquired faith, amid the influences of Catholic Europe. The brief correspondence is printed in the Atlantic Monthly for September, 1902.

Isaac Hecker, born in December, 1819, two and a half years after Thoreau, was the son of a German baker in New York city, and of little education until he came to Massachusetts at the age of twenty-three, as the disciple and friend of Dr. Brownson, then a Protestant preacher and social democrat. In January, 1843, he entered the Brook Farm community, not as a member, but as a worker and student, making the bread for the family and taking lessons of George Ripley, George Bradford, Charles Dana, and John S. Dwight,—all friends of the Concord circle of authors. But he was restless, and yearned for a more ascetic life, and before he had been at Brook Farm a month he was writing to Bronson Alcott about entering the as yet unopened Fruitlands convent, between which and Brook Farm Concord was a half-way station, both physically and spiritually. Hecker tried all three; was at Brook Farm, off and on, for six months, at Fruitlands two weeks (from July 11 to July 25, 1843), and at Concord two months (from April 22 to June 20, 1844). Then, August 1, he was baptized in the Catholic faith at New York. The day before this final step, towards which he had been tending for a year, he wrote to Thoreau, proposing a journey through Europe on foot and without money. During his brief Concord life he had been a lodger at the house of John Thoreau (the Parkman house, where now the Public Library stands), and had seen Henry Thoreau daily. Hecker thus describes his room, his rent, and his landlady, who was Thoreau's mother:

"All that is needed for my comfort is here,—a room of good size, very good people, furnished and to be kept in order for 75 cents a week, including lights,—wood is extra pay; a good straw bed, a large table, carpet, wash-stand, bookcase, stove, chairs, looking-glass,—all, all that is needful. The lady of the house, Mrs. Thoreau, is a woman. The only fear I have about her is that she is too much like dear mother,—she will take too much care of me. If you were to see her, Mother, you would be perfectly satisfied that I have fallen into good hands, and met a second mother, if that is possible. I have just finished my dinner,—unleavened bread from home, maple-sugar, and apples which I purchased this morning. Previous to taking dinner I said my first lesson to Mr. Bradford in Greek and Latin."

Hecker "boarded himself," but no doubt often partook of Mrs. Thoreau's hospitality, and took long walks with Thoreau. Writing to him three months after the first meeting at Concord, Hecker said: "I have formed a certain project which your influence has no slight share in forming. It is, to work our passage to Europe, and to walk, work, and beg, if need be, as far, when there, as we are inclined to do."

TO ISAAC HECKER (AT NEW YORK).

Concord, August 14, 1844.

Friend Hecker,—I am glad to hear your voice from that populous city, and the more so for the tenor of its discourse. I have but just returned from a pedestrian excursion somewhat similar to that you propose, parvis componere magna, to the Catskill Mountains, over the principal mountains of this State, subsisting mainly on bread and berries, and slumbering on the mountain-tops. As usually happens, I now feel a slight sense of dissipation. Still, I am strongly tempted by your proposal, and experience a decided schism between my outward and inward tendencies. Your method of traveling, especially,—to live along the road, citizens of the world, without haste or petty plans,—I have often proposed this to my dreams, and still do. But the fact is, I cannot so decidedly postpone exploring the Farther Indies, which are to be reached, you know, by other routes and other methods of travel. I mean that I constantly return from every external enterprise with disgust, to fresh faith in a kind of Brahminical, Artesian, Inner Temple life. All my experience, as yours probably, proves only this reality. Channing wonders how I can resist your invitation, I, a single man—unfettered—and so do I. Why, there are Roncesvalles, the Cape de Finisterre, and the Three Kings of Cologne; Rome, Athens, and the rest, to be visited in serene, untemporal hours, and all history to revive in one's memory, as he went by the way, with splendors too bright for this world,—I know how it is. But is not here, too, Roncesvalles with greater lustre? Unfortunately, it may prove dull and desultory weather enough here, but better trivial days with faith than the fairest ones lighted by sunshine alone. Perchance, my Wanderjahr has not arrived, but you cannot wait for that. I hope you will find a companion who will enter as heartily into your schemes as I should have done.

I remember you, as it were, with the whole Catholic Church at your skirts. And the other day, for a moment, I think I understood your relation to that body; but the thought was gone again in a twinkling, as when a dry leaf falls from its stem over our heads, but is instantly lost in the rustling mass at our feet.

I am really sorry that the Genius will not let me go with you, but I trust that it will conduct to other adventures, and so, if nothing prevents, we will compare notes at last.

When this invitation reached Concord, Thoreau was absent on a tour with Channing to the Berkshire Mountains and the Catskills,—Channing coming up the Hudson from New York (where he then lived, aiding Horace Greeley in the Tribune office), and meeting his friend at the foot of the Hoosac Mountain. On its summit Thoreau had spent the night, sleeping under a board near the observatory tower built by the Williams College students, as related by him in the Week. They then crossed the Hudson and journeyed on to the Catskills, returning together to Concord.[107] Meantime Hecker had got impatient, and wrote again, to which Thoreau replied, August 17, thus briefly:—

TO ISAAC HECKER (AT NEW YORK).

I improve the occasion of my mother's sending to acknowledge the receipt of your stirring letter. You have probably received mine by this time. I thank you for not anticipating any vulgar objections on my part. Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home. Who knows whence his education is to come! Perhaps I may drag my anchor at length, or rather, when the winds which blow over the deep fill my sails, may stand away for distant parts,—for now I seem to have a firm ground anchorage, though the harbor is low-shored enough, and the traffic with the natives inconsiderable. I may be away to Singapore by the next tide.

I like well the ring of your last maxim, "It is only the fear of death makes us reason of impossibilities." And but for fear, death itself is an impossibility.

Believe me, I can hardly let it end so. If you do not go soon, let me hear from you again.

Yrs. in great haste,
Henry D. Thoreau.

Hecker did not in fact go to Europe till a year later, and when he walked over a part of central Europe, it was in company with one or two young Catholic priests,—men very unlike Thoreau.

The short correspondence with Calvin Greene (longer than that with Hecker) occurred at intervals, a dozen years and more after the Fruitlands period, when the Walden experience had been lived through and recorded, and the friendship with the Ricketson family was in its earlier stages. Mr. Greene, when he called on me at his first visit to the Thoreau family in 1863, mentioned that he had just read Thoreau's poem, "The Departure," which at Sophia's request I had lately printed in the Boston Commonwealth, a weekly that I had been editing since Moncure Conway had left Concord for London, in the winter of 1862-63. Greene was a plain, sincere man, never in New England before, who amused Channing by saying he had "taken a boat-ride on the Atlantic." He came once more in 1874, and spent an evening with me in the house where Thoreau lived and died,—Mrs. Thoreau then being dead, and Sophia at Bangor, where she died in 1876.

TO CALVIN H. GREENE (AT ROCHESTER, MICH.).

Concord, January 18, 1856.

Dear Sir,—I am glad to hear that my "Walden" has interested you,—that perchance it holds some truth still as far off as Michigan. I thank you for your note.

The "Week" had so poor a publisher that it is quite uncertain whether you will find it in any shop. I am not sure but authors must turn booksellers themselves. The price is $1.25. If you care enough for it to send me that sum by mail (stamps will do for change), I will forward you a copy by the same conveyance.

As for the "more" that is to come, I cannot speak definitely at present, but I trust that the mine—be it silver or lead—is not yet exhausted. At any rate, I shall be encouraged by the fact that you are interested in its yield.

Yours respectfully,
Henry D. Thoreau.

Concord, February 10, 1856.

Dear Sir,—I forwarded to you by mail on the 31st of January a copy of my "Week," post paid, which I trust that you have received. I thank you heartily for the expression of your interest in "Walden" and hope that you will not be disappointed by the "Week." You ask how the former has been received. It has found an audience of excellent character, and quite numerous, some 2000 copies having been dispersed.[108] I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blundering clod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,—but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?

I like the name of your county.[109] May it grow men as sturdy as its trees! Methinks I hear your flute echo amid the oaks. Is not yours, too, a good place to study theology? I hope that you will ere long recover your turtle-dove, and that it may bring you glad tidings out of that heaven in which it disappeared.

Yours sincerely,
Henry D. Thoreau.

Concord, May 31, 1856.

Dear Sir,—I forwarded by mail a copy of my "Week," post paid to James Newberry, Merchant, Rochester, Oakland Co., Mich., according to your order, about ten days ago, or on the receipt of your note.

I will obtain and forward a copy of "Walden" and also of the "Week" to California, to your order, post paid, for $2.60. The postage will be between 60 and 70 cents.

I thank you heartily for your kind intentions respecting me. The West has many attractions for me, particularly the lake country and the Indians, yet I do [not] foresee what my engagements may be in the fall. I have once or twice come near going West a-lecturing, and perhaps some winter may bring me into your neighborhood, in which case I should probably see you. Yet lecturing has commonly proved so foreign and irksome to me, that I think I could only use it to acquire the means with which to make an independent tour another time.

As for my pen, I can say that it is not altogether idle, though I have finished nothing new in the book form. I am drawing a rather long bow, though it may be a feeble one, but I pray that the archer may receive new strength before the arrow is shot.

With many thanks, yours truly,
Henry D. Thoreau.

Concord, Saturday, June 21, 1856.

Dear Sir,—On the 12th I forwarded the two books to California, observing your directions in every particular, and I trust that Uncle Sam will discharge his duty faithfully. While in Worcester this week I obtained the accompanying daguerreotype,[110] which my friends think is pretty good, though better-looking than I.

Yrs.,
Henry D. Thoreau.

Concord, July 8, 1857.

Dear Sir,—You are right in supposing that I have not been Westward. I am very little of a traveler. I am gratified to hear of the interest you take in my books; it is additional encouragement to write more of them. Though my pen is not idle, I have not published anything for a couple of years at least. I like a private life, and cannot bear to have the public in my mind.

You will excuse me for not responding more heartily to your notes, since I realize what an interval there always is between the actual and imagined author and feel that it would not be just for me to appropriate the sympathy and good will of my unseen readers.

Nevertheless, I should like to meet you, and if I ever come into your neighborhood shall endeavor to do so. Can't you tell the world of your life also? Then I shall know you, at least as well as you me.

Yours truly,
Henry D. Thoreau.

Concord, November 24, 1859.

Dear Sir,—The lectures which you refer to were reported in the newspapers, after a fashion,—the last one in some half-dozen of them,—and if I possessed one, or all, I would send them to you, bad as they are. The best, or at least longest one of the Boston lectures was in the Boston Atlas and Bee of November 2d,—maybe half the whole. There were others in the Traveller, the Journal, etc., of the same date.

I am glad to know that you are interested to see my things, and I wish I had them in printed form to send to you. I exerted myself considerably to get the last discourse printed and sold for the benefit of Brown's family, but the publishers are afraid of pamphlets, and it is now too late.[111]

I return the stamps which I have not used.

I shall be glad to see you if I ever come your way.

Yours truly,
Henry D. Thoreau.

GENERAL INDEX

The following are the titles of the volumes covered by this index and the numbers by which they are designated:—

• 1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
• 2. Walden.
• 3. The Maine Woods.
• 4. Cape Cod, and Miscellanies.
• 5. Excursions, and Poems.
• 6. Familiar Letters.

GENERAL INDEX

[The titles of chapters and general divisions are set in SMALL CAPITALS.]

• "A finer race and finer fed," verse, 1, 407.
• Abbot (Me.), 3, 97.
• Abby and Almira (Mrs. Miner and Mrs. Small), 6, 152.
• Abercrombie, 6, 26.
• Abolitionist Journal, an, 4, 306-310; convention, 6, 260.
• Aboljacarmegus Falls, 3, 58, 82; meaning of the name, 157.
• Aboljacarmegus Lake, 3, 51.
• Aboljacknagesic Stream, 3, 51, 58, 59, 62.
• Absence, from Concord, 6, 50, 67-121, 233; in love and friendship, 74, 187.
• "Abuse of the Bible," Mrs. Mott's, 6, 97.
• Academy at Concord, 6, 72.
• Acclimation, 6, 73, 78.
• Achilles, The Youth of, translation, 5, 385.
• Acorns, 6, 354, 355.
• Acre, an, as long measure, 5, 60.
• Across the Cape, 4, 129-149.
• Action and Being, 6, 159, 163, 178, 179, 210, 221.
• Acton (Mass.), 2, 136; 5, 136; 6, 355, 364, 366, 367.
• Adams, John, 6, 5, note.
• Adams' Latin Grammar, 6, 25.
• Adirondacks, 6, 360, 364, note.
• Admetus, 6, 39, 44, 45, 223, 355.
• Admiration, 6, 153, 214, 337.
• Adolescentula, E. White, 6, 29, 32.
• Adoration of Nature, 6, 36, 37, 64.
• Advertisements, the best part of newspapers, 1, 194.
• Advice, 6, 25, 26, 66, 67, 121, 134, 143, 144, 178, 186.
• Æolian harp, 6, 199.
• Aerial effects, 6, 88.
• Aerial rivers, 6, 58.
• Aes alienum, another's brass, a very ancient slough, 2, 7.
• Æschylus, The Prometheus Bound of, translation, 5, 337-375.
• Æschylus, translated, 6, 60, 102.
• Æsculapius, that old herb-doctor, 2, 154.
• Æsculapius, translation, 5, 380.
• After the Death of John Brown, 4, 451-454.
• Agassiz, Louis, 1, 26, 31; and T., 6, 125-132; mentioned, 138, 147, 328.
• Age and youth, 2, 9.
• Age of achievement, 6, 120-182.
• Agiocochook, 1, 335; 6, 107.
• Agriculture, the new, 4, 291; the task of Americans, 5, 229-231; newspaper, 6, 107.
• "Ah, 't is in vain the peaceful din," verse, 1, 15.
• Aims in life, 6, xi, 47, 59, note, 67, 88, 89, 118, 159, 164, 173, 187, 242, 260, 278.
• Aitteon, Joe, 3, 94, 99, 100, 210, 233, 313.
• Ajax, The Treatment of, translation, 5, 387.
• Alcott, A. Bronson (b. 1799, d. 1888), 6, 50, 52, 60, 61, 62-65, 83, note, 104, 124, 134, 136, 144, 146, 151, 153, 154, 158, 190, 238, 252, note, 281, 289, 306, 328, 333, 341, 346, 359, 379, 381, 397; acquaintance with Thoreau, 50, 52, 64, 136, 137, 151; at home in Fruitlands, 64, 83, 84; in Boston, 236, 237; in Walpole, 281; in Concord, at Orchard House, 333, 376; builds Emerson's summer-house, 134-137; in Concord jail, 52; chosen school superintendent, 377; diary of, 297; holds conversations in Concord, 52, 64, 346; in Eagleswood, N. J., 291; in New York, 282, 283, 297; dines with Thoreau, 52; visits with Thoreau in New Bedford, 306, 307; in Plymouth, 328, note; in Brooklyn, 298; describes Walt Whitman, 298; at Thoreau's funeral, 65, note; letter from, 397; letter to, 282.
• Alcott, Mrs. A. B., 6, 283.
• Alcott, Louisa May, 6, 321, note, 377, note.
• Alewives, 1, 32.
• Alexander the Great, 6, x.
• "All things are current found," verse, 1, 415.
• Allegash and East Branch, the, 3, 174-327.
• Allegash Lakes, the, 3, 78, 175, 250, 257.
• Allegash River, the, 3, 40, 80, 161, 178, 233, 250, 254-257, 260, 270.
• Allen, Phineas, 6, 10, note.
• Alms-House Farm, 2, 283.
• Alms-House (of Concord), 6, 34, 77, 146.
• Alphonse, Jean, quoted, 4, 238; and Falls of Montmorenci, 5, 38, 39; quoted, 91.
• Ambejijis Falls, 3, 50; portage round, 52, 84.
• Ambejijis Lake, 3, 45-47, 49, 50, 84, 291.
• Ambejijis Stream, 3, 50.
• America, the only true, 2, 228; the newness of, 3, 90; not truly free, 4, 476, 477; provincialism of, 477; superiorities of, 5, 220-224.
• American, money in Quebec, 5, 24; the, and government, 82, 83, 6, 8-10.
• American privateer, General Lincoln, 6, 5.
• Amherst (N. H.), 6, 302.
• Amoenitates Botanicae, 6, 207.
• "Amok" against T., society running, 2, 190.
• Amonoosuck, the, 1, 334.
• Amoskeag Falls, 1, 259, 260, 337.
• Amoskeag (N. H.), 1, 261, 262, 271, 273, 307.
• Amphiaraus, The death of, translation, 5, 387.
• Amusements, games and, despair concealed under, 2, 8, 9.
• "An early unconverted saint," verse, 1, 42.
• Anacreon, 1, 238-240; translations from, 240-244; quoted, 5, 108, 109, 110.
• Anawan, an Indian, 6, 15.
• Anchors, dragging for, 4, 162.
• Ancients, wisdom of the, 6, 114, 299, 300.
• Andover (Mass.), 1, 124.
• Andropogons, or beard-grasses, 5, 225-258.
• Ange Gardien Parish, 5, 42; church of, 46.
• Angler's Souvenir, the, 5, 119.
• Animal food, objections to, 2, 237.
• Animal labor, man better without the help of, 2, 62, 63.
• Animal life and heat nearly synonymous, 2, 14.
• Animals, man's duty to the lower, 4, 283-286.
• Annihilation Company, 6, 194.
• Anti-Sabbath Convention, 6, 157, 158.
• Anti-Slavery meetings, 6, 255, 358, 359.
• Anti-Slavery Standard, The, 6, 46, 245.
• Antiquities, 1, 264, 265-267.
• Ants, battle of the, 2, 253-257.
• Apmoojenegamook Lake, 3, 244, 260; meaning of, 250; a storm on, 263, 264; hard paddling on, 267.
• Apollo, translation, 5, 383.
• Appearances, 6, 177, 227, 228.
• Apple, history of the tree, 5, 290-298; the wild, 299, 300; the crab, 301, 302; growth of the wild, 302-308; cropped by cattle, 303-307; the fruit and flavor of the, 308-314; beauty of the, 314, 315; naming of the, 315-317; last gleaning of the, 317-319; the frozen-thawed, 319, 320; dying out of the wild, 321, 322.
• Apple-howling, 5, 298.
• Apples, the world eating, green 2, 86; Baldwin, 6, 213; Dead Sea, 356; frozen-thawed, 177, 178; of Hesperides, 213; planted by T., 355.
• "Apple-tree, Elisha's," 1, 380.
• Apple trees, Cape Cod, 4, 32-34.
• Apprentices, the abundance of, 1, 129.
• Archer, Gabriel, quoted, 4, 244.
• Architecture, need of relation between man, truth and, 2, 51, 52; American, 4, 28, 29; the new, 293.
• "Architecture, Seven Lamps of" (Ruskin), 6, 319.
• Aristotle, quoted, 1, 133, 386.
• Arm-chairs for fishermen, 1, 91.
• Arnica mollis, 6, 334, 335.
• Arnold, Benedict, 6, 323.
• Arnold, Mr., 6, 341.
• Aroostook (Me.), road, 3, 3, 13, 14; river, 4; wagon, an, 14; valley, 23; sleds of the, 261.
• Armies, 6, 260, 323, 356.
• Arpent, the, 5, 60.
• Arrowheads, 1, 18; 6, 19, note, 96.
• Art, Nature and, 1, 339; works of, 9; 6, 94, 319.
• Ashburnham (Mass.), 5, 3; with a better house than any in Canada, 100.
• Ash trees, 5, 6.
• Asiatic, Russia, Mme. Pfeiffer in, 2, 25.
• Asnebumskit, 6, 195, 279, 280.
• Assabet (or North) River, the, 1, 4; 5, 136; 6, viii, 269.
• Assawampsitt, 6, 265.
• Asters, 3, 97.
• Astronomy, 1, 411-413; at Cambridge, 6, 133, 137, 138; at Concord, 133.
• Atlantic Monthly, 6, 235, 395, 396.
• Atlantides, The, verse, 1, 278.
• Atlas, 2, 93.
• Atlas, the General, 3, 95; 6, 243, 362.
• Atropos, as name for engine, 2, 131.
• Aubrey, John, quoted, 1, 112.
• Auction, of a deacon's effects, 2, 75; or increasing, 75.
• Audubon, John James, reading, 5, 103; 109, note; 112, note.
• Aulus Persius Flaccus, 6, 6, 158.
• Aurora of Guido, The, verse, 5, 399.
• Australia, gold-hunters in, 4, 465, 466.
• Autumn, the coming of, 1, 356; flowers of, 377-379; 403; landscape near Provincetown, 4, 193-195; foliage, brightness of, 5, 249-252; a poem on, 6, 115; delights of, 37, 38, 282.
• Autumnal Tints, 5, 249-289.
• Autumnal tints, 6, 340, 350.
• Autumnus, 6, 38.
• Average ability, man's success in proportion to his, 1, 133; the law of, in nature and ethics, 2, 321.
• "Away! away! away! away!" verse, 1, 186.
• Axy, a Bible name, 4, 95.
• Baboosuck Brook, 1, 232.
• Babylon, ancient, 6, 224.
• Babylon (N. Y.), 6, 102.
• Bacchus, Whitman compared to, 6, 298.
• Background, all lives want a, 1, 45.
• Bailey, Prof. J. W., 3, 4.
• Baker Farm, 2, 223-231.
• Baker Farm, 2, 307.
• Baker's barn, 2, 286.
• Baker's River, 1, 87, 268.
• Ball's Hill, 1, 19, 37, 43.
• Bands of music in distance, 2, 177, 178.
• Bangor (Me.), 3, 3, 4, 9, 12; 6, 119, 132, 325; passage to, 3, 16; 23, 36, 38, 74, 86, 91, 94-98; the deer that went a-shopping in, 154; 160, 161, 166, 167, 174, 175; House, the, 177; 250, 251, 256, 257, 290, 307.
• Bank swallow, the, 4,164.
• Banks, 6, 162, failures of, 317, 318; stock in, 162, 213, 317, 318.
• Barberries, 6, 156, 175, 358.
• Barber's Historical Collections, quoted, 4, 222.
• Barnstable (Mass.), 4, 22.
• Bartlett, Dr. Josiah (H. U. 1816), 6, 137, 138, 152, 254.
• Bartlett, Robert (H. U. 1836), 6, 58.
• Bartram, William, quoted, 2, 75; 5, 199.
• Bascom, Rev. Jonathan, 4, 55.
• Baskets, strolling Indian selling, 2, 20, 21.
• Bass-tree, the, 1, 166.
• Bathing, sea, 4, 16, 17; feet in brooks, 5, 140.
• Batteaux, 3, 6, 35.
• Battle-ground, first, of the Revolution, 1, 14.
• Battles, 6, 356; in the clouds, 330.
• Bayberry, the, 4, 102, 103.
• Beach, The, 4, 57-78.
• Beach Again, The, 4, 102-128.
• Beaches, Cape Cod the best of Atlantic, 4, 269-271.
• Beach-grass, 4, 200, 201, 204-209.
• Beach-plums, 1, 381.
• Bean-Field, The, 2, 171-184.
• Beard-grasses, Andropogons or, 5, 255-258.
• Bears, abundance of, 3, 235.
• Beaumont, Francis, quoted, 1, 69.
• Beauport (Que.), and le Chemin de, 5, 30; getting lodgings in, 35-38; church in, 69; Seigniory of, 96.
• Beaupré, Seigniory of the Côte de, 5, 41.
• Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, 6, 66.
• Beauty, 6, 198, 199; Emerson's Ode to, 115-117; Ruskin on, 319.
• Beaver River, 1, 92.
• Bed, a cedar-twig, 3, 60; of arbor-vitæ twigs, 265; the primitive, by all rivers, 317.
• Bedford (Mass.), 1, 4, 37; petition of planters of, 50; 53, 62; 2, 136.
• Bedford (N. H.), 1, 247, 248, 251, 252.
• Beecher, Henry Ward, 6, 291.
• Bees, the keeping of, 4, 284, 285.
• Beggar-ticks, 6, 289.
• Behavior, repentance for good, 2, 11.
• Behemoth, 6, 231.
• "Behold, how Spring appearing," verse, 5, 109.
• Belknap, Jeremy, quoted, 1, 91, 127, 189, 201.
• Bellamy, the pirate, wrecked off Wellfleet, 4, 160, 161.
• Bellew, F., an artist, 6, 287.
• Bellows, Rev. H. W. (H. U. 1832), 6, 105.
• Bellows, valley called the, 1, 189.
• Bellows Falls (Vt.), 1, 91; 5, 5.
• Bells, the sound of Sabbath, 1, 78; of Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, Concord, the, 2, 136.
• Bemis, George, Concord printer, 6, 18.
• Benjamin, Park, 6, 107, note.
• Benton, Myron B., 6, 398. See Letters.
• "Best room," the pine wood behind house, 2, 157.
• Betty's Neck, Middleborough, 6, 265.
• Bewick, Thomas, 6, 248.
• Beverley, Robert, History of Virginia, quoted, 4, 15, 102, 103.
• Bhagvat-Geeta, the, quoted, 1, 140; pure thought of the, 142; beauty of the, 148; 153.
• Biberg, J. (naturalist), quoted, 6, 207.
• Bible, 6, 63, 98, 114.
• Bibles of several nations, the, 1, 72; of mankind, 72; 2, 118, 119.
• Bigelow, Dr. J., 6, 19.
• Billerica (Mass.), 1, 4, 32, 36, 38, 43; age of the town of, 49; 51, 53, 62, 119, 391.
• Billingsgate, part of Wellfleet called, 4, 82.
• Billingsgate Island, 4, 89.
• Biography, autobiography the best, 1, 163.
• Birch, yellow, 5, 6.
• Birds, 6, 21, 23, 30, 42, 75; living with the, 2, 95; in the wilderness, 3, 118; about Moosehead Lake, 186; about Mud Pond Carry, 237; near Chamberlain Lake, 240, 241; on Heron Lake, 255; on East Branch, 309; on Cape Cod, 4, 113, 114, 131, 164; and mountains, 5, 149. See under names of species.
• Birney, James G., 6, 283, 288.
• Biscuit Brook, 1, 380.
• Bittern (Ardea minor, stake-driver), 1, 249; booming of the, 5, 111.
• Black Knight, The, verse, 5, 415, note.
• Black, Mrs., 6, 82.
• Black Sam, 2, 29, 31.
• Blackfish, driven ashore in storm, 4, 142-147.
• Black flies, protection against, 3, 236, 246.
• Blake, Harrison Gray Otis (H. U. 1835), 6, 158, 159, 190, 233, 279; letter from, 158, 159; letters to, 160, 164, 173, 174, 177, 179, 185, 194, 197, 209, 217, 221, 225, 229, 241, 244, 253-261, 267, 276-281, 290-296, 302, 307, 308, 314-322, 343, 358, 360-368, 383; tours with, 195, 234, 333; visits from, 158, 253, 267.
• Blakians, sugar candy, 6, 279.
• Blood, Perez, 6, 133, 134, 137.
• Blueberries, 3, 66, 298; 6, 23, 369; and milk, supper of, 5, 144.
• Bluebird, the, 5, 110; 6, 14, 21, 22, 341, 374-376.
• Blue-eyed grass, 6, 36.
• Boat, T.'s, 1, 12; hints for making a, 13.
• Boat-building, 1, 228.
• Boatmen, the pleasant lives of, 1, 220-226.
• Bobolink, the, 5, 113.
• Bodæus, quoted, 5, 317.
• Body, a temple, man's, 2, 245; and soul, 164, 165, 181, 213, 214.
• Bogs with hard bottom, 2, 363.
• Bolton (Mass.), 5, 137.
• Bonaparte, anecdote of, 6, 270.
• Bonsecours Market (Montreal), 5, 11.
• Books, the reading and writing of, 1, 93-112; how to read, 2, 112; the inheritance of nations, 114; catalogue of, 6, 59, 63, 263; T.'s gift of, 264; on natural history, reading, 5, 103-105.
• Boots, Canadian, 5, 51;
• Borde, Sieur de la, quoted, 4, 156.
• Boston (Mass.), countrified minds in towns about, 3, 24; a big wharf, 4, 268; newspapers of, 398-400; 5, 3, 7, 9; Agassiz in, 6, 125-132; Alcott in, 190, 236, 237; clubs ridiculed, 345; "Dial" mentioned, 38, 58-63, 75, 78, 84, 87, 94, 108, 113-117, 129; lectures and lecturers, 189, 190, 192, 358; Miscellany, 83, note, 87, 102; packet for Cape Cod, 255, 256; publishers, 83, 102, 139, 182, 233, 263, 332, 395.
• Botany, T.'s skill in, 6, 3, 234, 238.
• Botta, Mrs. Anne Lynch, 6, 297.
• Botta, Paul Emile, quoted, 1, 107, 130.
• Boucher, quoted, 5, 91.
• Boucherville (Que.), 5, 20.
• Bouchette, Topographical Description of the Canadas, quoted, 5, 41, 42, 63, 64, 89, 92, 94, 95.
• Bound Rock, 1, 5.
• Bout de l'Isle, 5, 20.
• Bowlin Stream, 3, 308.
• Box, living in a, 2, 32.
• Boys, Provincetown, 4, 218.
• Bradbury and Soden, 6, 83, 102.
• Bradford (N. H.), 1, 380.
• Bradford, George P. (H. U. 1825), 6, 63, 328, 404, 405.
• Bradford, T. G. (H. U. 1822), 6, 19, note.
• Brahm, the bringing to earth of, 1, 141.
• Brahman, virtue of the, 1, 146.
• Brahmins, 6, 224, 299, 300; their forms of conscious penance, 2, 4, 5; Walden ice makes T. one with the, 329.
• Brand's Popular Antiquities, quoted, 5, 297, 298.
• Brave man and the coward, the, 4, 277-279.
• Bravery of science, the, 5, 106, 107.
• Bread without yeast, 2, 68-70; discourse on, 6, 121, 164-166, 260, 268.
• Breakers, 4, 58, 209.
• Bream, 1, 24-26.
• Breed's hut, 2, 285.
• Brereton, John, quoted, 4, 245.
• Brewster (Mass.), 4, 22, 28, 29.
• Briars, a field near Walden, 6, 170, 171.
• Bricks, mortar growing harder on, 2, 266.
• Bride and bridegroom, 6, 199, 200, 207, 302.
• Bridgewater (Mass.), 4, 19.
• Brighton—or Bright-town, 2, 148.
• Brister's Hill, 2, 252, 283, 284, 289, 294.
• Brister's Spring, 2, 289, 291.
• Britania's Pastorals, quoted, 1, 121.
• Broadway, New York, 6, 70, 85, 287, 291.
• Brook Farm, 6, 318, 404.
• Brook Island in Cohasset, 4, 4.
• Brooklawn, New Bedford, 6, 263, 271, 305.
• Brooklyn, N. Y., 6, 70, 290, 296, 297.
• "Brother, where dost thou dwell?" verse, 5, 403; 6, 74.
• Brown, Deacon Reuben, 6, 141.
• Brown, John, the truth about, 4, 409; the Kansas troubles, 410, 413-416; occupation, descent, and character, 410-414; newspaper opinions of, 416-425; absurdly called insane, 426-428; small following of, 432; example of death of, 434, 435; feeling of divine appointment, 436, 437; why guilty of death, 437; quoted, 439, 440; last days of, 441-450; effect of the words of, 444; editors' opinions of, 445; not dead, 449, 450; T.'s speech in Concord after the death of, 451-454; 6, 290, 337, 359, 364; comes to Concord, 358, 359; his capture and execution, 358-360; is eulogized by T., 359; his companions, 365-367.
• Brown, John, Jr., son of preceding, visits North Elba and Boston, 6, 364.
• Brown, Mrs. See Jackson.
• Brown, Theo., of Worcester, 6, 238, 254, 280, 286, 292, 294, 307, 315, 331.
• Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 1, 69; 4, 157, 158.
• Brownson, O. A., 6, 5, 404.
• Brute Neighbors, 2, 247-262.
• Buckland, Francis T., Curiosities of Natural History, 4, 84.
• Buddha and Christ, 1, 68.
• Buddhist, 6, 108.
• Buffaloes, 6, 14, 17, 109.
• Buffum, Arnold, 6, 288.
• Bug from an egg in table of apple wood, the, 2, 366.
• Building one's own house, significance of, 2, 50, 51.
• Bull, E. W. (Concord grape), 6, 377, note.
• Bulwer, Lord Lytton, 6, 28, 30.
• Buried money, 1, 208.
• Burlington (Vt.), 5, 7, 99.
• Burnham, a Boston bookseller, 6, 263.
• Burns, T.'s grandmother, 6, 7.
• Burns, Anthony, 4, 405.
• Burnt Land, the, 3, 29, 77.
• "Burntibus," 3, 319.
• Burton, Sir Richard Francis, 5, 228.
• Business habits indispensable, strict, 2, 21, 22; remarks on, 6, 8, 9, 107, 169-171, 317, 318, 355, 356.
• Busk, Indian feast of first fruits, 2, 75.
• "But since we sailed," verse, 1, 16.
• "Butternuts," in New York, 6, 18.
• Butternut tree, 5, 6.
• Buttrick's Plain, 1, 51.
• Cabmen of New York, 6, 69, 70.
• Cabot, the discoveries of, 4, 232, 233.
• Cabot, J. Elliot (H. U. 1840), 6, 125, 130, 188; letters to, 126-129, 155; letters from, 130, 131, 188.
• Cabs, Montreal, 5, 18; Quebec, 69, 70.
• Cactus, 6, 29, 32.
• Caddis-worms, 5, 170.
• Caen, Emery de, quoted, 5, 52.
• Caleche, the (see Cabs), 5, 69, 70.
• Calf, the young hunting, 6, 135.
• Calidas, the Sacontala, quoted, 1, 183; 2, 351.
• California, the rush to, 4, 463-465; 6, 210, 216.
• Calling, choice of a, 6, 66, 67, 108, 109, 121, 156, 163, 168, 171, 174, 175, 181, 195, 211, 219.
• Calyx, 6, 199; the thalamus, or bridal chamber, 208.
• Cambria, steamer, aground, 4, 93.
• Cambridge, college room rent compared with T.'s, 2, 55; crowded hives of, 150; 6, 5, 7, 8, 10, note, 45, 66-68, 109, 129, 133, 138, 226, 237, 252, 253, 287, 311; observatory, 133, 137.
• Camp, loggers', 3, 20; reading matter in a, 37, 38; on side of Ktaadn, a, 68; the routine for making, 210-212; darkness about a, 303, 304.
• Camping out, 6, 365, 368, 369, 371.
• Camp-meetings, Eastham, 4, 46-48; versus Ocean, 67.
• Canaan (N. H.), 1, 263.
• Canada, apparently older than the United States, 5, 80, 81; population of, 81, 82; the French in, a nation of peasants, 82; mentioned, 6, 215, 251, 323, 324.
• Canadense, Iter, and the word, 5, 101.
• Canadian, woodchopper, a, 2, 159-166; boat-song, 3, 42; a blind, 234; French, 5, 9; horses, 34; women, 34; atmosphere, 34; love of neighborhood, 42, 43; houses, 44, 59; clothes, 45; salutations, 47; vegetables and trees, 47, 48; boots, 51; tenures, 63, 64.
• Canal, an old, 1, 62.
• Canal-boat, appearance of a, 1, 150; passing a, in fog, 200; later and early thoughts about a, 221-226; with sails, 273, 274.
• Candor, in friendship, 6, 57, 80, 137.
• Cane, a straight and a twisted, 5, 184, 185.
• Canoe, water-logged in Walden Pond, 2, 212; a birch, 3, 106; used in third excursion to Maine woods, 181; shipping water in a, 189; crossing lakes in a, 206; carrying a, 207, 208; running rapids in a, 275-277, 279, 280; 6, 109, 254, 324, 325.
• "Canst thou love with thy mind," verse, 6, 202.
• Canton, Mass., T.'s school at, 6, 5.
• Cap aux Oyes, 5, 93.
• Cape Cod, T.'s various visits to, 4, 3; derivation of name of, 4; formation of, 4, 20; barrenness of, 36-38; the real, 65; houses, 80; landscape, a, 132-137; men, the Norse quality of, 140; western shore of, 142; changes in the coast-line of, 151-155; clothes-yard, a, 220; and its harbors, various names for, 226-229; Gosnold's discovery of, 242-247; people, 257, 258; 6, 246, 255, 256, 312, 313; T.'s excursions to, 254, 255, 309, 312, 357.
• "Cape Cod Railroad," the, 4, 19.
• Cape Diamond, 5, 22, 40; signal-gun on, 85; the view from, 88.
• Cape Rosier, 5, 92.
• Cape Rouge, 5, 21, 95.
• Cape Tourmente, 5, 41, 89, 96.
• Carbuncle Mountain, 3, 291.
• Cardinals, 1, 18.
• Cards left by visitors, 2, 143, 144.
• Cares, 6, 262, 360.
• Carew, Thomas, quoted, 2, 89.
• Caribou Lake, 3, 216.
• Carlisle (Mass.), 1, 4, 37, 50, 53; 6, 16, 18, 134.
• Carlisle Bridge, 1, 20, 37.
• Carlton House, New York, 6, 55.
• Carlyle, Thomas, and his works, 4, 316-355.
• Carlyle, Thomas, circumstances of his life, 4, 316-320; his books, 320-322; not a German nor a mystic, 322-325; English style of, 324-333; quoted, upon Richter, 331, 338; humor of, 333-337, as critic and looker-on, 339-343; not blithe enough for a poet, 343, 344; sympathy with the Reformer class, 344-346; compared with Emerson, 345; a philosopher of action, 346-349; objections to, 349; a typical specimen from, on Heroes, 350-352; his exaggeration, 352-354; quoted, on the writing of history, 354; pointing to the summits of humanity, 355; mentioned, 6, 49, 62, 81, 94, 101, 154, 169, 250; reviewed by Emerson, 94, 101; by Thoreau, 169.
• Carnac, 1, 267.
• Carry, Indian's method with canoe at a, 3, 207, 208; a wet, 235-244; berries at each, 305, 306; race at a, 314, 315.
• Cartier, Jacques, 5, 7; and the St. Lawrence, 89-91; quoted, 97; 98, 99.
• Caryatides, gossips leaning against barn like, 2, 186.
• Cascade, Silver, 6, 39.
• Cases in court, Wyman's, 6, 104; Sanborn's, 6, 364; other cases, 226.
• Castleton, Staten Island, 6, 68, 71-73, 76, 78, 84, 104.
• Castor and Pollux, translation, 5, 388.
• Cat, the Collins's, 2, 48; in the woods, domestic and "winged," 257, 258.
• Catacombs, 6, 161, 178.
• Catastomus tuberculatus, 6, 131.
• Catherine, a Concord family, 6, 4.
• Catholic Church, 6, 243, 406.
• Cat-naps, 6, 106.
• Cato, Major, quoted, 2, 70, 93, 183, 268.
• Cattle-show, the Concord, 1, 358-361; men at, 5, 184.
• Caucomgomoc Lake, meaning of the name, 3, 156; 222, 223.
• Caucomgomoc Mountain, 3, 233.
• Caucomgomoc Stream, 3, 142, 147, 219, 229, 247, 297; 6, 325.
• Caves, birds do not sing in, 2, 31.
• Cedar-post, life of, 6, 293.
• Cedar tea, arbor-vitæ, or, 3, 60.
• Celebrating, men, a committee of arrangements, always, 2, 363.
• Celestial Cows, 6, 223.
• Celestial Empire, conditions of successful trade with, 2, 22; 6, 89.
• "Celestial Railroad," 6, 120.
• Cellar, a burrow to which house is but a porch, 2, 49.
• Cellini, Benvenuto, quoted, 2, 224, 225.
• Cemetery of fallen leaves, 5, 269, 270.
• Chairs for society, three, 2, 155.
• Chaleur, Bay of, 3, 178; 5, 90; 6, 324.
• Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, in criticism of Coleridge, 5, 324.
• Chamberlain Farm, the, 3, 245, 264, 265.
• Chamberlain, Lake, 3, 101, 145, 161, 233, 237, 239, 240; Apmoojenegamook or, 244; dams about, 251; 262, 267; 6, 325.
• Chambers of Silence, 6, 231.
• Chambly (Que.), 5, 11.
• Champlain, Samuel, quoted, 4, 85; records and maps of, 227-233; quoted, 5, 8; whales in map of, 91.
• Change of air, 2, 352.
• Channing, Ellen Fuller, wife of Ellery, 6, 43, note.
• Channing, W. E., quoted, 1, 42; 2, 225; 6, 43, note, 58, note, 65, 79, 92-94, 104, 113, 117, 120-122, 146, 151, 153, 190, 192, 235-238, 251, 253, 254, 257, 259, 266, 270, 272, 273-275, 308, 326, note, 328, 334, 336, 341, 344, 345, 406, 407; quoted, ix, x, 3, 65, note, 121.
• Channing, Rev. William Henry (H. U. 1829), cousin of Ellery, 6, 81, 96, 104, 118, 183, 184.
• Channing, William Francis (son of Dr. W. E. Channing, and cousin of the two named above), mentioned, 6, 190.
• Chapin, Rev. E. H. (H. U. 1845), 6, 61.
• Chapman, George, quoted, 2, 37.
• Chapman, John, London publisher, 6, 271.
• Charity, cold, 4, 78.
• Charles I, the only martyr in Church of England liturgy, 4, 446.
• Charleston, S. C., 6, 283.
• Charlevoix, quoted, 5, 52, 91.
• Chastity, the flowering of man, 2, 242, 243; and sensuality, 6, 192, 204-209, 295.
• Château, Richer, church of, 5, 46; 49; lodgings at, 59.
• Chateaubriand, quoted, 1, 137.
• Chatham (Mass.), 4, 26.
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, quoted, 1, 293, 352, 353; in praise of, 391-400; quoted, 2, 234; quoted, 5, 159, 160, 6, 103; mentioned, 76.
• Chaudière River, the, 5, 21; Falls of the, 69, 70.
• Cheap men, 5, 29, 30.
• Checkerberry-Tea Camp, 3, 301.
• Chelmsford (Mass.), 1, 53, 63, 81, 85, 88, 92, 113, 268, 384, 391.
• Cherries, 6, 23, 71.
• Cherry-stones, transported by birds, 5, 188.
• Chesuncook, 3, 93-173.
• Chesuncook Deadwater, 3, 217.
• Chesuncook Lake, 3, 5, 11, 36, 73, 80, 86, 94, 104, 105, 117, 119, 136, 137; meaning of the word, 156; 176; going to church on, 214; 234, 250, 254; mentioned, 6, 325, 395.
• Chicago, visited by T., 6, 384; by B. B. Wiley, 298.
• Chickadee, coming of the, 2, 304; 5, 108; 6, 253.
• Chief end of man, 2, 9.
• Chien, La Rivière au, 5, 56.
• Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria, 6, 100.
• China, 6, 89, 246.
• Chippeway Indians, 6, 109.
• Chivin, Dace, Roach or Cousin Trout, 1, 27; 3, 59; 312; 6, 127, 131, 132.
• Cholmondeley, Rev. Charles, 6, 236.
• Cholmondeley, Thomas, 6, 234-237, 240, 241, 247-249, 252, 258, 271, 297, 308, 342-344, 349, 352, 380-383; books sent by, 270, 271; letter from, 272, 297, 380; letter to, 249-251.
• Christ, 6, 179, 194.
• Christian, the modern, 4, 420; being a, 445; the prayer of a, 6, 89.
• "Christian Examiner," 6, 99.
• Christianity, practical and radical, 1, 141; adopted as an improved method of agri-culture, 2, 41.
• Church of England, prayer for a martyr, 4, 446.
• Churches, Catholic and Protestant, 5, 12-14; 6, 79, 97, 195, 224, 226, 243; roadside, 46.
• Cigar-smoke, the gods not to be appeased with, 4, 42.
• Circulating library, 2, 116, 117.
• Cities, as wharves, 4, 268; American, 6, 69, 79, 187, 287, 297, 345.
• City and country opinions, 4, 396, 397.
• City and Swamp, 6, 187.
• Civil Disobedience, 4, 356-387.
• Civilization, not all a success, 2, 34; and landscape, 3, 171-173.
• Claire Fontaine, La, 5, 26.
• Clams, Cape Cod, 4, 35, 36; large, 72; or quahogs, catching birds 86; stones shaped like, 109.
• Clark, Farmer, 6, 141.
• Clark's Island, 6, 301, note, 328, note.
• Clark, the Swedenborgian, 6, 146.
• Classics, study of the, 1, 238; 2, 111-113; must be read in the original, 115.
• Clay Pounds, the, 4, 132; why so called, 158; the Somerset wrecked on, 162.
• Clothes, 6, 227, 228, 245, 255, 256, 262, 363; bad-weather, 5, 28; Canadian, 45.
• Clothing, a necessary of life, 2, 13, 14; not always procured for true utility, 23; new and old, 25, 26.
• Cloud, entering a, 3, 70; factory, a, 70.
• Clouds. See Rain.
• Clover, tree. See Melilot.
• Club at Parker House, 6, 345; Town and Country, 345, 346.
• Coat-of-arms, a Concord, 1, 7.
• Cock-crowning, the charms of, 2, 140-142.
• Codman place, the, 2, 286.
• Coffee-grounds, 6, 180.
• Cohass Brook, 1, 238.
• Cohasset, the Indian, 1, 251.
• Cohasset (Mass.), the wreck at, 4, 5-13; Rocks, sea-bathing at, 16, 17.
• Cold Friday, dating from, 2, 280.
• Cold Stream Pond, 3, 9.
• Cold weather, 6, 14, 27-32, 250.
• Collins, James, Irishman whose shanty T. bought, 2, 47.
• Colors, names and joy of, 5, 273-275. See Autumnal Tints, Clouds, etc.
• Colton's Map of Maine, 3, 104, 308.
• Comet, nucleus of, 6, 173.
• Commerce, 1, 224; in praise of, 2, 131-136, 6, 102.
• Common sense, uncommon and, 1, 414; the sense of men asleep, 2, 357, 358.
• Compost, better part of man soon plowed into soil for, 2, 6.
• Conantum, 1, 374; 6, 140.
• Concord (Mass.), settlement of, 1, 3; historian of, quoted, 3; 5; coat-of-arms for, 7; territory of, in 1831, 8; described by Johnson, 8; meadows, 9; a port of entry, 12; 14; poet, a, 14; 36, 43, 49, 51, 61, 64, 82, 124; History of, quoted, 125; 169; Cliffs, 170; 227, 345; Cattle-show in, 358-361; return to, 420; Walden Pond in 2, 3; traveled a good deal in 4; the farmers of, 35; house surpassing the luxury of, 54; little fresh meal and corn sold in, 70; Battle Ground, 95; effect of a fire bell on people living near, 103, 104; culture, 117, 118, wiser men than produced by soil of, 119; hired man of, 120; liberal education in, 121; "its soothing sound is—," 127; sign of a trader in, 133; bells of, 136; two-colored waters of, 195; Walden bequeathed to, 214, 215; fight of ants, 255; D. Ingraham, Esq., of, 283; "to the rescue," 286; 291, 308; 3, 1, 24, 76, 117; meaning of Indian name for, 157, 187; 214, 268; the Assabet in; 278; the trainers of, 4, 392; 5, 3, 6, 8; History of, quoted, 115; 133, 149, 152; its academy, 6, 10, 24, 49; aspect of, 14, 38, 67, 92, 104; cliffs of, 28, 30, 104; Lyceum, 6, 52, 53, 61, 145, 154, 156, 275; people and houses, 4-7, 14, 17, 18, 21, 34, 35, 42, 43, 48-50, 52-54, 64, 65, 92, 93; schools, 5, 6, 10, 22, 23, 48, 49, 321, 322; T's fondness for, 285.
• Concord (N.H.), 1, 88, 89; 2, 68, 308; entertained in, and origin of, 322.
• Concord River, 1, 3-11.
• Concord River, 1, 3; course of, 3; gentleness of, 7; 10, 11, 19, 20, 62, 90, 113; a canal-boat on, and Fair Haven, 222-224; Conantum on the, 374; reaching the, 391; 2, 215, 219; 3, 229, 278, 299; 5, 115, 139; 6, 3, 92, 262.
• Condover, England, 6, 235, 383.
• Conduct, regulation of, 6, ix, 9, 10, 33, 34, 57, 76, 88, 89, 118, 161, 162, 166, 167, 177, 186, 187, 205.
• Confucius, quoted, 1, 288, 299; 2, 12, 149; 6, 299.
• Connecticut River, the, 1, 87, 88, 89, 212, 263; 5, 5, 145, 147; 6, 282.
• "Conscience is instinct bred in the house," verse, 1, 75.
• Conscience, the, 1, 75, 138; the chief of conservatives, 140.
• Conservatism, the wisest, 1, 140.
• Contoocook, 1, 87.
• Conversation, the shallowness of most, 4, 471; 6, 64, 65, 346.
• Conway, Moncure Daniel (H. U. 1854), 6, 398.
• Cooking, 1, 237.
• Coombs, Neighbor, 6, 141, 154.
• Coöperation, difficulties of, 2, 79, 80.
• Coos Falls, 1, 248, 353.
• Coreopsis, 1, 18.
• Corn, great crops of, 4, 37-39.
• Cost, the amount of life exchanged for a thing, 2, 34; of house, items of, 54; of food for eight months, 65, 66; total, of living, 66; bean-field, 179, 180.
• Cotes, Lady Louisa, 6, 383.
• Cotton, Charles, quoted, 1, 249.
• Country and city opinions, 4, 396, 397.
• Coureurs de bois and de risques, 5, 43.
• Cousin Trout. See Chivin.
• Cowper, William, quoted, 2, 92; 6, 254, 275.
• Cows fed on fishes' heads, 4, 214, 215.
• Cranberries, mountain, 3, 27; tree, 147.
• Cranberry Island, 1, 6.
• Cranks, the turning of, 4, 297.
• Crantz, account of Greenland, quoted, 4, 60, 149.
• Crickets, the creaking of, 5, 108.
• Crimea, 6, 266; war in the, 237, 244, 251.
• Criticism, 1, 401.
• Cromwell's Falls, 1, 88; story of Cromwell and, 206, 207.
• Crooked River, the Souhegan or, 1, 231.
• Crookneck squash seeds, Quebec, 5, 87.
• Crosses in the wilderness, 3, 50; roadside, 5, 45, 46.
• Crow, the, 5, 108; not imported from Europe, 113.
• Crusoe, Robinson, among the Arabs, 1, 60.
• Crystalline botany, 5, 126, 127.
• Cuckoo characters, 6, 161.
• Culm, bloom in the, 5, 253.
• Cultivation, wildness, and, 1, 55.
• Cummings, slave of Squire, 2, 284.
• Cupid Wounded, verse, 1, 244.
• Curing moose meat and hide, 3, 149, 150, 208.
• Curtis, George William, 6, 142, 256, note, 343.
• Custom, the grave of, 1, 136; immemorial, 140.
• Cutler, E. J. (H. U. 1853), 6, 287.
• Cytherea choros ducit, 6, 27.
• Dace. See Chivin.
• Damodara, quoted, 2, 97.
• Dana, Charles, 6, 404.
• Danesaz, 6, 122.
• Daniel, Samuel, quoted, 1, 106, 132, 407; 6, 219.
• Darby, William, quoted, 5, 93, 94.
• Darien, Isthmus of, robbing graveyards, on the, 4, 467.
• Darwin, Charles R., quoted, 2, 14; 4, 122; 6, 382.
• Davenant, Sir William Gondibert, quoted, 2, 286.
• Davis, Josiah, of Concord, his house, 6, 5.
• Day, deliberately, like nature, spending one, 2, 108; and right, 6, 242, 292, 293, 310.
• Day-dreams, 6, 38-40, 92, 93, 121, 122, 180, 181.
• D. D.'s and chickadee-dees, 4, 469.
• Dead body on the shore, a, 4, 107, 108.
• De Bry's Collectio Peregrinationum, 3, 149.
• Debt, getting in and out of, 2, 7.
• Decalogue, for whom made, 6, 167.
• Deep Cove, 3, 45, 84.
• Deer, 3, 154.
• Deer Island, 3, 100, 183, 185, 188.
• Delay, verse, 5, 418.
• Delay, in life, 6, 196; in dying, 350.
• Demons, 6, 91, 243, 267, 333.
• De Monts, Sieur, quoted, 1, 42; Champlain and, 4, 228.
• Dennis (Mass.), 4, 22; described, 25, 26.
• Departure, The, verse, 5, 414.
• Desperation, mass of men lead lives of quiet, 2, 8, 9.
• Destiny, 6, 44; our own work, 361.
• Devil, 6, 188, 220; the printer's, 322.
• Dew of sixpences, 6, 44.
• "Dial," quarterly magazine, 6, 38, 58-63, 78, 84, 87, 94, 108, 113-117, 125, 156, 158.
• Dialect, abominable, 6, 63.
• Dialogue between Hermit and Poet, 2, 247-249.
• "Die and be buried who will," verse, 3, 90.
• Digby, Sir Kenelm, quoted, 2, 179.
• Ding Dong, verse, 5, 417.
• Diogenes, 6, x.
• Diploma, 6, 138.
• Dippers, a brood of, 3, 184.
• Discipline, 6, 212, 243.
• Discontented, speaking mainly to the, 2, 17, 18.
• Discovery, inner, 1, 409.
• Dissipation, not allied to love, 6, 206; to be shunned by T., 6, 313.
• Divinity in man! Look at the teamster, 2, 8.
• Doane, Heman, verses by, on Thomas Prince's pear tree, 4, 44, 45.
• Doane, John, 4, 45.
• Dobson, the criminal, and Henry James, 6, 346, 347.
• Doctrine of Sorrow, 6, 168; of Happiness, 173, 174; of letting alone, 177, 178.
• Dog, in the woods, a village Bose, 2, 257; a troublesome, 3, 177; at the churn, a, 4, 285.
• Dog-barking, 1, 40.
• Dogmas, 6, 346.
• Dogs on the seashore, 4, 185, 186; in harness, 5, 30.
• Doing and Being, 6, 221, 230.
• Doing-good, a crowded profession, 2, 81.
• "Dong, sounds the brass in the East," verse, 1, 50.
• Donne, Dr. John, quoted, 1, 315, 356.
• Double Top Mountain, 3, 49.
• Douglass, Frederick, Wendell Phillips on, 4, 313.
• Dracut (Mass.), 1, 81.
• Drake, Sir Francis, quoted, 5, 325.
• Dream of fishing, a, 3, 61.
• Dreams, 1, 119, 315; 6, 216.
• Dress, of Cholmondeley, 6, 342; of the Quakers, 97, 288; of T., 226.
• Driftwood, Cape Cod and Greenland, 4, 59-61.
• Drosera, 6, 310.
• Du Chaillu, 6, 382.
• Drum, sound of a, by night, 1, 181.
• Drummond of Hawthornden, William, quoted, 2, 219.
• Dubartas, quoted, translation of Sylvester, 5, 328, 329.
• Ducks, on Walden Pond, 2, 262.
• Dug-out houses of American colonists, 2, 42, 43.
• Duke of Newcastle, and Prince of Wales, 6, 372.
• Dunbar, Rev. Asa (H. U. 1767), T.'s grandfather, 6, 7.
• Dunbar, Charles (uncle of T.), 6, 5, 106.
• Dunbar, Louisa, 6, 99.
• Dunbar, Mary, 6, 12, note.
• Dundees, a nickname, 6, 14, 16.
• Dunstable (Mass.), 1, 64, 114, 123, 124, 174, 175, 177, 208, 227; History of, 175; quoted, 113, 126.
• Durkee, Dr., a naturalist, 6, 310, 327.
• Dustan, Hannah, escape with nurse and child from Indians, 1, 341-345.
• Duties, 6, 162, 167, 222, 223, 229.
• Duty, sense of, 6, 196.
• Duxbury (Mass.), 6, 301 note.
• Dwelling-house, what not to make it, 2, 31.
• Dwight, John S., 6, 404.
• Dwight, Timothy, quoted, 4, 212, 225.
• Dying, real, 4, 434, 435.
• "Each summer sound," verse, 5, 112.
• Eagle-Beak, 6, 15, note, 16.
• Eagle Lake, 3, 101, 161; road, 261.
• Eagleswood, 6, 286-291.
• Earth, probing of, 6, 194.
• East Branch, the Allegash and, 3, 174-327.
• East Branch, mouth of the, 3, 19; 23, 161, 175, 176, 249, 256, 257, 268; Hunt's house on the, 269, 270, 273, 274, 288, 289, 298, 312, 315, 316.
• East Harbor Village, in Truro, 4, 137.
• East Main, Labrador and, health in the words, 5, 104.
• Easterbrooks Country, 5, 299, 303.
• "Easter Brooks," 6, 106.
• Eastern Mountain anchored, 6, 321.
• Eastham (Mass.), the history of, 4, 43-56; ministers of, 45-55; Table-Lands of, 62; the Pilgrims, 256.
• Echo, in nature, 6, 176, 177.
• "Echoes of Harper's Ferry," 6, 359.
• Economy, 2, 3-89.
• Edda, the Prose, quoted, 5, 291.
• Edith, the Saxon (daughter of Emerson), 6, 113.
• Education, tuition bills pay for the least valuable part of, 2, 55, 56.
• Eel, the common, the Lamprey, 1, 31.
• Eel River, 3, 256.
• Eggs, a master in cooking, 5, 61, 62.
• Egotism in writers, 2, 3, 4.
• Election-birds, 1, 56.
• Elegy in a Country Churchyard, 3, 19, quoted, 19.
• Eliot, John, 1, 82.
• Elm, the, 5, 263, 264, 276.
• Eloquence a transient thing, 2, 113.
• Elysian life, summer makes possible, 2, 15.
• Elysium, translation, 5, 375.
• Emerson, Charles Chauncy (H. U. 1828), his Notes from the Journal of a Scholar, 6, 94.
• Emerson, Charles (H. U. 1863), 6, 24, note.
• Emerson, Edith (Mrs. W. H. Forbes), 6, 51, 54, 55, 103, 136, 145, 157.
• Emerson, Edward Waldo (H. U. 1866), 6, 136, 145, 152, 157.
• Emerson, Ellen Tucker, 6, 51, 53, 113, 136, 142, 145, 150, 153, 157.
• Emerson, Haven (son of William), 6, 78.
• Emerson, George B., quoted, 5, 200.
• Emerson, Miss Mary Moody (aunt of R. W. E.), 6, 269, 345, note.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (H. U. 1821), quoted 1, 3, 14, 103, 104, 317; Carlyle compared with, 4, 345, 346; 6, vii, ix, 6, 10, note, 17, note, 48, 120, 125, 132, 151, 155, 157, 183, 190, 229, 236, 238, 251, 252, note, 253, 269, 322, 328, 337, note, 345, 346, 358, 359, 366, 367; children of, 51, 53-55, 136, 142, 145, 152, 153, 157; and Alcott, 63, 80, 83, 84, note, 136, 322, 328, 346; and Charles Lane, 62, 124, 125; and the "Dial," 58-63, 75, 78, 84, 94, 113-115; letters from, 48, 49, 58, 78, 94, 102, note, 104, 120, 125, 142, 155; letters to (from Thoreau), 50-58, 59-64, 78-84, 92-95, 101-103, 107, 108, 113-116, 135-155, 157, 169; quoted, 22, 115, 229, 237, note, 286, 290.
• Emerson, Mrs. R. W. (Lidian Jackson, of Plymouth), 6, 35, 42, note, 46, 53, 55, 64, 75, 95, 103, 135, 136, 152, 157; letter from, 64, 65; letters to, 75-78, 87-89, 112, 113.
• Emerson, Madam Ruth (mother of William, Ralph, and Charles), 6, 54, 78, 95.
• Emerson, Waldo (son of R. W. E.), 6, 22, 35, 42; death of, 22.
• Emerson, William (H. U. 1818), of Staten Island, 6, 50, 83, 98, 104.
• Emersonian influences, 6, 10, 49.
• Employment, 6, 15, 35, 39, 83, 107, 135, 181, 221, 222, 267, 315.
• End of Nature's creatures, the, 1, 236.
• Enfield (Me.), 3, 9.
• England, last news from, 2, 105; home of ancestors, 6, 5, note, Emerson in, 124, 125, 148, 150, 154, 155.
• English and French in the New World, 5, 66, 67.
• Englishmen, 6, 50, 110, 125, 162, 235-238, 383, note.
• Entomology, the study of, 5, 107, 108; 6, 90, 309, 310, 327, 328.
• Epidermis, our outside clothes, 2, 26.
• Epigrams of Thoreau, 6, 20, 26, 28, 41, 52, 56, 57, 60, 66, 67, 69, 76, 77, 83, 88, 93, 94, 118, 149, 156, 160, 161, 163, 173, 176, 178, 186, 199, 200, 201, 208.
• Epistles of Thoreau, 6, xii; Latin and English, 27-32; take the place of lectures, 192.
• Epitaphs, 1, 177, 178.
• Epitome of the year, the day, 2, 332.
• Errington, Miss, a teacher, 6, 73, 86.
• Eternal life, 6, 160, 161, 164, 173, 174, 194, 225.
• Eternity, 6, 178, 179, 204, 260, 261.
• Etesian winds, news simmers through men like, 2, 186.
• Ethnical Scriptures, 6, 114, 117.
• Etymologies, 6, 33, 34, 243.
• Etzler, J. H., review of The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, by, 4, 280-305; quoted, 280, 281, 292-300; "Mechanical System," 286, 292, 300, 303; merits and faults of the books, 301-304; criticised, 6, 102.
• Evelyn, John, quoted, 2, 10, 179; quoted, 5, 310, 311.
• Everett, Edward (H. U. 1811), 6, 372.
• Everlasting (life-everlasting), the pearly, 3, 97.
• Evil spirits, 6, 208, 226.
• Ex Oriente Lux: ex Occidente Frux, 5, 221.
• Exaggeration, the need of, 4, 352, 353.
• Excursions, in Concord, 6, 16, 18, 28, 49, 50, 59, note, 121, 126, 146, 230, 245, 250, 261, 267, 280, 281, 309; elsewhere in Massachusetts, 191, 196, 233, 234, 237, 244, 245, 255, 263, 279; to Maine, 254, 309, 315, 322-327; to Monadnoc, 329, 332, 364, 368-372; to New Hampshire (White Mountains), 6, 330-336, 349; to New York and New Jersey, 68-73, 77-80, 82-86, 95-97, 107-110, 183, 286-291, 295-298; to the West and Northwest, 380, 383, 391; estimate of, 6, 170, 171; reducing, 171, 182, 262.
• Expenses, farm, 2, 60, 61; outgo and income, bean-field, 179-181. See Cost.
• Experiences, the paucity of men's, 5, 241, 242.
• Exploration, of one's self, 2, 353-355.
• Extemporaneous living, 1, 332.
• Extra Vagance, depends on how you are yarded, 2, 357.
• Extravagance in living, 6, 213, 214, 317-319, 348.
• Eyes, movement of the, 1, 80, the sight of different men's, 5, 285-288; and insight, 6, 161, 162.
• Fable, the universal appeal of, 1, 58; the Christian, 67.
• "Fabulate and paddle in the social slush," 6, 230.
• Face, imaginary formation by thawing of the, 2, 339, 340.
• Factory system, not best mode of supplying clothing, 2, 29.
• Failure or success, 6, 188, 225.
• Faineancy, 6, 230.
• Fair Cities of the plain, 6, 348.
• Fair Haven, a canal-boat on, 1, 224; 2, 205, 219, 225, 274, 300, 307, 330; huckleberries on hill, 190, 192; ledges, 308; late ice on pond, 335; 6, 28, 30, 50, 116, 231.
• Faith, 6, 47, 57, 167, 169, 226; phases of, 56, 57, 81, 112, 118, 159, 173, 174, 178, 214, 215, 224, 242, 243, 379.
• Fall. See Autumn.
• Fall of the Leaf, the verse, 5, 407.
• Fallen Leaves, 5, 264-270.
• Falls, a drug of, 5, 58.
• Fama Marcelli, 6, viii.
• Fame, translation, 5, 378.
• Fame, to be distrusted, 4, 403; 6, vii, 66, 67, 92, 93.
• "Fame cannot tempt the bard," verse, 6, viii.
• Family ancestry, 6, 3, 7, 11, 104; demon of sleep, 91, 106.
• Farm, the Hollowell, 2, 92; a model, 218.
• Farmer, John, reflections of, 2, 245.
• Farmer, visits from a long-headed, 2, 294.
• Farmers, interesting in proportion as they are poor, 2, 218.
• Farms in Concord, 6, 256, note; in Staten Island, 86, 95; at Chappaqua, 297.
• Farwell of Dunstable, 1, 174-176, 208.
• Fashion, worship of, 2, 28.
• Fate, what a man thinks of himself, his, 2, 8; 6, 39, 77, 112, 361; the Fates, 74, 108, 149.
• Father Hecker, 6, 122, 123, 404, 405, 408.
• Father tongue, written language our, 2, 112.
• Feeling, acute, 6, 35; indifferent, 168.
• Fellowship, 6, 268.
• Feminine traits, 6, 198, 201.
• Fences in Truro, 4, 138, 139.
• Fenda, wife of "Sippio Brister," 2, 284.
• Fenwick, Bishop, 3, 323.
• Field, John, an Irishman, story of, 2, 226.
• Finch, 6, 75.
• Fine art, no place for a work of, 2, 41, 42.
• Fire, purification by, 2, 75; "my housekeeper," 279; man and, 280; an alarm of, 285; a camp, 3, 43, 115, 116; 6, 28, 30, 294, 333, 334, 373; of driftwood, 268; on Mt. Washington, 336; on Monadnoc, 369.
• Fire Island, 6, 183, 185.
• Fire-weed, 3, 95, 282.
• Fish, A Religious, newspaper clipping, 4, 116; uses of, in Provincetown, 212-215; spearing, 5, 119, 121-123. See Bream, Eel, Pickerel, Pout, Shiner.
• Fisher, the pickerel, 5, 180, 181.
• Fisherman, the, 1, 21; Account Current of a, 33.
• Fishes, the nature of, 1, 23; schools of, in Walden Pond, 2, 210, 211; of thought, 297; driven ashore by storm, 4, 143-147; described in Massachusetts Report, 5, 118.
• Fish-hawk, the, 1, 205; 5, 110.
• Fishing, with silent man, 2, 192; at night, 194; alone detains citizens at Walden Pond, 235, 236; impossible to T. without loss of self-respect, 236, 237; in winter, 313, 314; 3, 58; in the Caucomgomoc, 226, 227; for bass, 4, 117; mackerel, 179-184, 189, 190.
• Fish stories, ancient, 4, 215, 216.
• Fitchburg (Mass.), going to, 2, 59; 5, 3; 6, 292, 302.
• Fitchburg Railroad, 2, 127; depot in Boston, 6, 345; in Acton, 366.
• Fitzwilliam (N. H.), 5, 4.
• Five Islands, the, 3, 11, 31, 87, 320.
• Flagg, Wilson, 6, 311.
• Flat, the weak person, 4, 278.
• Flea, deserts made by bite of a, 1, 209.
• Flesh and bones, 6, 110.
• Fletcher, Giles, quoted, 1, 199, 202.
• Fletcher, Phineas, quoted, 1, 414 ("By them went Fido").
• Flint's Pond , 2, 201, 223, 330-333; or Sandy, in Lincoln, 216-219; covered with snow, like Baffin's Bay, 299.
• Floating in a skiff, 1, 48.
• Flowers, autumn, 1, 377.
• Fog, early morning, 1, 188, 200, 201; picturesque effect of, 201, 202; 6, 257, 329, 334, 335. See Clouds, Haze, Mist.
• Follen, Dr. Charles, 6, 30.
• Food, a necessary of life, 2, 13; the fuel of man's body, 14; general consideration of, 60-72; objections to animal, 237; desirability of simple, 238-241; 6, 164, 165, 175, 216, 218.
• Football, spiritual, 6, 217.
• Foreign country, quickly in a, 5, 31.
• Forests, nations preserved by, 5, 229.
• Former Inhabitants, and Winter Visitors, 2, 282-298.
• Fortifications, ancient and modern, 5, 77, 78.
• Fort Sumter, 6, 378, 379.
• Fourier, communities of, 6, 81, 96, 97, 104, 318.
• Fowler, Thomas, sheltered and joined by, 3, 29-34.
• Fox, shooting a, 2, 307; starting up a, 4, 148; the, 5, 117.
• Fox Island, 1, 43.
• Foxes outside T.'s house, 2, 301.
• Fragrance, of flowers and political life, 4, 408.
• Framingham (Mass.), 1, 4, 53.
• Franconia (N. H.), 1, 89.
• Franklin, wreck of the ship, 4, 73; wreckage from the, 92, 114, 115.
• Fredericton (N. B.), 3, 16.
• Freedom, of one's time, 4, 460, 461; advantages of, 6, 8, 12, 33, 34; for the scholar, 171, 174, 175.
• Freeman, "Sippio Brister," 2, 284.
• Free-Soilers, 6, 196.
• Frémont, J. C., 6, 362.
• French, coin found on beach at Wellfleet, 4, 161; explorers in and about New England, 227-242; difficulties in talking, 5, 35-37, 47; strange, 50; pure, 52; in the New World, English and, 66-68; in Canada, 81, 82; the, spoken in Quebec streets, 86, 87.
• Freshet, on the Merrimack, 1, 379; the Great, 3, 58.
• Fresh-Water or River Wolf, 1, 29.
• Friday, 1, 356-420.
• Friend, office of a, 6, 44, 53, 80, 93, 94, 135.
• Friends, 1, 275-307; 6, 56, 187, 206; their uses, 56, 57; estimate of, 186, 187; and followers, 183-400.
• Friends, The Value of, translation, 5, 387.
• Friendship, offense against, 6, 56-58; advantages of, 6, 57, 93, 94, 171, 187, 203; and love, 203, 302; verses on, 38, 329, note; accord in, 57, 201, 260, 261.
• Fringilla, Fring. Melod., 6, 23.
• Frogs, troonk of bull-, 2, 139, 140. See Toad.
• Froissart, good place to read, 5, 23.
• Frontier houses, 3, 144.
• Frontiers, wherever men front, 1, 323.
• Frost, Rev. Barzillai (H. U. 1830), 6, 10, note, 137.
• Frost-smoke, 5, 166.
• Fruitlands (farm of Alcott and Lane), 6, 64, 90, 122, 142, 155, 404.
• Fruits, gathering autumn, 2, 263.
• Fruit trees, paucity of, in Cape towns, 4, 34.
• Fuel, a necessary of life, 2, 13, 14; of man's body, food, 14.
• Fugitive Slave Law, the, 4, 388, 389, 401-403, 426.
• Fuller, Rev. Arthur (H. U. 1843), 6, 184.
• Fuller, Ellen (Mrs. Channing), 6, 43.
• Fuller, Margaret (Countess Ossoli), 6, 39, 94, 107, 120, 183-186.
• Fuller, Richard E. (H. U. 1844), 6, 43, 45, 65.
• Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 1, 265, 414.
• Fundy, Bay of, 3, 254.
• Funeral Bell, The, verse, 5, 405.
• Funeral processions, 6, 146.
• Fur Countries, inspiring neighborhood of the, 5, 105.
• "Furdustrandas," 4, 187, 191.
• Furniture, generally considered, 2, 72-76; moved out of doors, 125.
• Galway, Ireland, the wrecked brig from, 4, 6.
• Game, woodland, 6, 16, 336, 339.
• Ganges, 6, 267.
• Gardens, Emerson's, 6, 35, 77, 135, 149, 150; Thoreau's, 86, 355.
• Garget, poke or, 5, 253-255.
• Garrison, W. L., 6, 255.
• Gazette, news of political parties, not of nature, printed in the, 2, 19.
• Gazetteer, reading the, 1, 92; quoted, 206, 207, 259, 260, 269-271; 4, 25, 28.
• Geese, first flock of, 5, 110.
• Genius, order in the development of, 1, 329; the Man of, 350; a man and his, 362; of the mountain, 6, 369; of the storm, 369.
• Gerard, the English herbalist, quoted, 4, 206.
• Gerardia, purpurea (purple gerardia), 1, 18.
• Gesner, Konrad, von, quoted, 1, 389; 5, 318.
• Gifts, 6, 22.
• Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 4, 123.
• Gilpin, William, quoted, 2, 276, 317; 4, 119; 6, 239, 263, 264.
• God, T.'s idea of, 1, 65, 66; men's impertinent knowledge of, 70, 71; the personality of, 79; clothes fit to worship, in, 2, 25; 6, 159, 163, 174, 188, 259; ask to see, 164; city of, 164; 223; not an ash man, 244; reigns, 178, 317.
• "God's Drop," proposed as name for Walden Pond, 2, 215.
• Goethe, 1, 347-350; quoted, 351-353; 6, 62, 168, 301.
• Goff's Falls, 1, 251.
• Goffstown (N. H.), 1, 205, 260, 271, 274.
• Gold craze, California and Australia, 4, 463-467.
• Goldenrod, 3, 97.
• Good deeds, 6, 171.
• Good Genius, advice of T.'s, 2, 230.
• Good and Wise, verse, 6, 147.
• Goodwin, Prof. William Watson (H. U. 1851), 6, 103.
• Gookin, Daniel, quoted, 1, 82, 114, 175, 176, 267; 2, 32.
• Goose, stray, cackling like spirit of the fog, 2, 46; honking of, 300, 345. See Geese.
• Goose Pond, 2, 219; muskrats in, 299.
• Gorilla, 6, 382.
• Goshawk, American, 6, 188, 189.
• Gosnold, Captain Bartholomew, 4, 4; discovery of Cape Cod by, 242-247.
• Gosse, P. A., Canadian Naturalist, 5, 91.
• Gossip, stroll to village to hear, 2, 185.
• Government, the best, 4, 356; the American, 356-360; resistance to, 360-362, 365-381; T. and the, 381-387; good and bad, 405; a representative, 429; the small business of, 478-480; too much, 5, 82, 83; 6, 154, 359, 378, 379.
• Governor, a Massachusetts, 4, 389, 390.
• Gower, John, quoted, 1, 57, 121.
• Grampus Rock, in Cohasset, 4, 7, 11.
• Grand Falls of the Penobscot, 3, 31; portage to avoid the, 32.
• Grand Lake, 3, 268; Indian name for, 295; 297, 307.
• Grand Portage, the, 3, 80.
• Grange Bluff, 6, 385.
• Grape Island, 1, 43.
• Grass-ground River, 1, 3, 32.
• Graves, Indian, 1, 251.
• Graveyard, a Cape Cod, 4, 148.
• Graveyards, monuments and, 1, 177.
• Great Brook, 5, 137.
• Great Fields, the, 5, 257.
• "Great God! I ask thee for no meaner pelf," verse, 5, 418.
• Great Meadows, 1, 3, 16.
• Great Quitticus, 6, 264.
• Great River, the, or St. Lawrence, 5, 89, 90, 91, 92.
• Greece, verse, 5, 404.
• Greece, The Freedom of, translation, 5, 390.
• "Greece, who am I that should remember thee," verse, 1, 54.
• Greeley, Horace, 6, 68, 96, 101, 104, 158, 169-172, 291, 297, 407.
• Green Mountains, the, 5, 6, 100, 145, 147.
• Greenbush (Me.), 3, 324.
• Greene, Calvin H., 6, 392, 403, 409; letters to, 408-412.
• Greenland, driftwood in, 4, 60.
• Greenleaf's Map of Maine, 3, 16.
• Greenville (Me.), 3, 99, 101, 188, 194, 209.
• Grey, Mrs., 6, 82.
• Grey, the traveler, quoted, 5, 94.
• Grief, cause of, 6, 41, 47, 48, 75, 89, 118, 168; remedy for, 41, 43, 48.
• Griffith's Falls, 1, 257.
• Grimké sisters, 6, 283, 288.
• Grippling for apples, 5, 309.
• Groton (Mass.), 1, 169; 5, 139, 152.
• Ground-nuts, the, 2, 263-265.
• Gulls, methods of catching, 4, 71, 72; 5, 110.
• Gunnar (Norse hero), 6, 382.
• Guns, sound of distant big, 2, 176.
• Guyot, Arnold, 5, 93; quoted, 93, 94, 220, 221.
• Habington, William, quoted, 1, 56, 102.
• Habits, ill, remedy for, 6, 148, 149, 208, 226, 227.
• Hafiz, quoted, 1, 415.
• Hale, Rev. Edward Everett (H. U. 1839), 6, 307.
• Hale, Nathan (H. U. 1838), 6, 83, note.
• Half lives, how the other, 1, 227.
• Hall, Leyden, at Plymouth, 6, 190; Masonic, at Concord, 6; Music, Boston, 359.
• Hamlet, Fechter's, 6, 382.
• Hampstead (N. H.), 1, 185, 202.
• Hard times, 6, 317, 318.
• Hare, the, 2, 309, 310.
• Harebell, the, 1, 92.
• Harivansa, the, quoted, 2, 95.
• Harper & Brothers, 6, 105.
• Harrison and Tyler, 6, 371.
• Harvard (Mass.), 5, 151, 152; 6, 45, 280.
• Harvard College, 6, 4, 10, 65, 104, 138, 237, 252.
• Hastings, Warren, quoted, 1, 142, 143.
• Hasty, Captain, 6, 184.
• Hasty-pudding, friends flee approach of, 2, 271.
• Hate, 6, 202; and love, 93, 199, 200.
• Haverhill (Mass.), 1, 87, 89, 185, 202; historian of, quoted, 322; 342.
• "Have you not seen," verse, 5, 413.
• Hawk, fish, 5, 110.
• Hawk, watching a, 2, 348, 349. See Nighthawk.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 6, vii, 42, note, 51, 93, 107, 120, 364.
• Hawthorne, Sophia, 6, 45.
• Haydon (English painter), 6, 224, 301.
• Haystack, the, 1, 86.
• Haze, 1, 229. See Fog.
• Head, Sir Francis, quoted, 5, 47, 221, 222.
• Head of the River, New Bedford, 6, 332, 333, 340.
• Headley, Henry, 6, 65.
• Hearts, 6, 200, 201, 294.
• Heathenish, 6, 191, 210.
• Heaven, 1, 405-409; 6, 87, 163, 179, 196, 220, 284; admission to, 164, 220, 223.
• Hebe, a worshiper of, 2, 154.
• Hecker, Isaac, 6, 122, 123; letters to, 405, 407.
• Hedgehog, shooting a, 3, 130.
• Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma, 1, 153.
• Height of Glory, The, translation, 5, 384.
• Hell, living in Massachusetts, or, 4, 405, 406.
• Henry, Alexander, Adventures of, 1, 228, 230, 231; Wawatam's friendship with, 291.
• Hens, 6, 38, 63, 273.
• Herald of Freedom, 4, 306-310.
• Heraud, John A., 6, 61.
• Herbert, George, 6, 113, 377.
• Hercules, labors of, trifling compared with those of T.'s neighbors, 2, 5; 6, 226, 344.
• Hercules names the Hill of Kronos, translation, 5, 377.
• Hercules' Prayer concerning Ajax, son of Telamon, translation, 5, 390.
• Herds, the keepers of men, 2, 62.
• Hermit. See Dialogue.
• Hermitage, Walden, 6, 154.
• Hermit-life, 6, 135, 158.
• Herndon, William Lewis, quoted, 4, 479, 480.
• Heron, 1, 416.
• Heron Lake, 3, 254, 255; 6, 325.
• Herrick, Robert, 5, 298.
• Herring River, 4, 80.
• Hesiod, quoted, 1, 64.
• Hester Street, meeting at, 6, 97.
• Hibiscus, 1, 19.
• Hickory, the, 5, 264, 265.
• Hide, stretching a, 3, 147, 148; sale of a moose, 152.
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (H. U. 1841), 6, 189, 190, 260, 323-327.
• Higher Laws, 2, 232-246.
• Highland Light, The, 4, 150-175.
• Highland Light, 4, 132, 150; description and stories of, 167-175; 6, 255.
• Highlanders in Quebec, 5, 25-27, 28, 29, 79.
• "Highlands" between the Penobscot and St. John, 3, 238.
• Hilton's clearing, 3, 105.
• Hindoos, 6, 89, 271, 299, 300.
• Hippocrates, on cutting the nails, 2, 10, 11.
• "His steady sails he never furls," verse, 5, 109.
• History, the reading and the antiquity of, 1, 161-163; reading, 3, 87.
• Hoar family, 6, 15, note, 321.
• Hoar-frost, 5, 126, 127.
• Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood (H. U. 1835), 6, 15, 75, 78, 395.
• Hoar, Edward Sherman (H. U. 1844), 6, 75, 313, 330, 332-336.
• Hoar, Elizabeth, 6, 51, 75, 93, 116.
• Hoar, George Frisbie (H. U. 1846), 6, 15, note, 100.
• Hoar, Samuel (H. U. 1802), 6, 15, note, 351.
• Hobble-bush, wayfarer's tree or, 3, 96.
• Hoboken (N.J.), 6, 109.
• Hochelaga, 5, 89, 97, 99.
• Hodge, assistant geologist, quoted, 3, 29, 80.
• Hodnet, England, 6, 236, 237, note, 249, 272, note.
• Hog Island, inside of Hull, 4, 15.
• Hog, the, 6, 222, 328.
• Holland, the King of, in his element, 3, 239.
• Hollowell place, the, 2, 91, 92.
• Home, 6, ix, 50, 63; affection of T. for, 99, 262.
• Homer, 1, 97, 394; Iliad, 2, 111; never yet printed in English, 115; quoted, 160; 5, 181; 6, 92, 197, 239, 291.
• Hontan, French explorer, 6, 389.
• Hood's "Song of the Shirt," 6, 224.
• Hooksett (N. H.), 1, 225, 251, 260, 273, 274, 308, 309, 335; Pinnacle, 318; Falls, 322.
• Hoosac Mountain, T.'s ascent of, 1, 189-200.
• Hoosac Mountains, 5, 147.
• Hop, culture of the, 5, 136, 137.
• Hope, 6, 20.
• Hopeful, Sachem (John Thoreau), 6, 13, 35.
• Hopkinton (Mass.), 1, 4, 32.
• Horace, quoted, 6, 27, 30.
• Horns, uses for deer's, 3, 97, 98.
• Hornstone, 3, 194.
• Horses, to hang clothes on, wooden, 2, 23, 24; men's work for, 4, 286; Canadian, 5, 34; 6, 136, 142, 153, 294, 321, 334, 340.
• "Horses have the mark," verse, 1, 243.
• Horse-race, 6, 286, 293.
• Horseshoe Interval, the, 1, 126, 377.
• Hortus siccus, nature in winter a, 5, 179.
• Hosmer, Edmund (the "farmer-man"), 6, 93, 137, 154, 257, 261, 265, 270.
• Hosmer, Solon, 6, 257.
• Hospitalality, not hospitality but, 2, 168.
• Hotham, Edmund Stuart, 6, 59, note.
• Hottentots and Ruskin, 6, 319.
• Houlton (Me.), road, the, 3, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13.
• Hounds hunting woods in winter, 2, 305-309.
• House, every spot possible site for a, 2, 90; the ideal, 266-271; the perfect, 5, 153.
• Household, of Emerson, 6, 35, 53, 54, 64, 135, 136, 142, 147, 152; of the Dunbars and Thoreaus, 4-7, 24, 27-32, 99, 104-106, 351.
• House-raising at Walden Pond, 2, 49, 50.
• Houses, superfluities in our, 2, 39; Canadian, 5, 44, 59; American compared with Canadian, 100; lived in by Thoreau, 6, 4-7, 24, 58, 141, 143, 144, 148-150; 369.
• House-Warming, 2, 263-281.
• Housework, a pleasant pastime, 2, 125.
• Howitt, William, 4, 465; quoted on Australian gold-diggings, 467; 6, 84, 235.
• Huckleberries never reach Boston, 2, 192.
• Hudson (N. H.), 1, 151, 152, 153, 169.
• Hudson, Rev. Henry N., described, 6, 145.
• Hudson River, 6, 70, 109, 392.
• Huguenots of Staten Island, 1, 190.
• Hull (Mass.), 4, 15.
• Humane Society, huts of the, 4, 63, 74-78.
• Human nature, 6, 8, 9, 37, 47, 96, 110, 160, 163, 166, 180, 196, 203, 208, 209.
• Humboldt, Alexander von, quoted, 4, 121; 5, 92, 93.
• Humor, the quality of, 4, 335-337; T.'s sense of, 6, xi, xii.
• Hunt family, 6, 106, 256, note.
• Hunt House, the old, 5, 201.
• Hunter, a "gentlemanly," 3, 178, 179; Indian, with hides, 231; enviable life of a, 269, 270.
• Hunters, boys to be made first sportsmen, then, 2, 234.
• Hunting, the degradation of, 3, 132-134.
• Hut for shipwrecked sailors, 4, 63, 74-78; in the woods, 6, 58, 59, note, 125, 168.
• Hyde, Tom, the tinker, quoted, 2, 360, 361.
• Hygeia, no worshiper of, 2, 154.
• Hypseus' Daughter Cyrene, translation, 5, 383.
• I, the first person, retained in this book, 2, 3, 4.
• "I am a parcel of vain strivings tied," verse, 1, 410.
• "I am bound, I am bound for a distant shore," verse, 1, 2.
• "I am the autumnal sun," verse, 1, 404.
• "I hearing get, who had but ears," verse, 1, 392.
• "I make ye an offer," verse, 1, 69.
• "I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind," verse, 1, 2.
• "I see the civil sun drying earth's tears," verse, 5, 120.
• "I've searched my faculties around," verse, 5, 418.
• "I wish to sing the Atridæ," verse, 1, 240.
• Ice, looking through the, on Walden Pond, 2, 272; whooping of the, 301; cutting through, to get water, 312, 313; cutting on Walden Pond, 323-329; beauty of Walden, 327; booming of the, 333; 5, 176; 6, 206, 212, 250, 251, 273.
• Iceberg, 6, 335.
• Ice formations in a river-bank, 5, 128, 129.
• Idle hours, 6, 18, 47, 209, 254, 267.
• "If I am poor," verse, 5, 412.
• "If thou wilt but stand by my ear," verse, 5, 418.
• "If with light head erect I sing," verse, 5, 396.
• Ignorance, Society for the Diffusion of Useful, 5, 239.
• Imagination, not exercised, 6, 26; discussed by Ruskin, 319.
• Imitations of charette-drivers, Yankee, 5, 99.
• Immigrants, 6, 96, 110.
• Immortality, 6, 194, 225.
• "In the East fames are won," verse, 4, 346.
• "In this roadstead I have ridden," verse, 5, 414.
• "In two years' time 't had thus," verse, 5, 303.
• "In vain I see the morning rise," verse, 1, 366.
• "Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell," verse, 6, 202.
• Independence, verse, 5, 415.
• India, books on, Cholmondeley's gift of, 6, 270, note, 271.
• Indian, crowding out of the, by whites, 1, 53; civilizing the, 55; conversion of the, 82-85; capture of two Dunstable men, 174; attacks, letters to governor about expected, 232, 233; captivity, escape of Hannah Dustan and others from, 341-345; houses in Massachusetts Colony, 2, 32, 33; extinction, 3, 7; guides secured, 11; belief that river ran two ways, 35; words for some birds and animals, 108; camp, an, 146-159; language, 151; words for Maine waters, 155-157; houses at Oldtown, 161; relics, 166; speech, 187; singing, 198; methods of guiding, 204-206; manner of carrying canoes, 207, 208; inscription, an, 220; wardrobe, 249, 250; failure to understand avoidance of settlers, 258; medicines, 259; travel, 260, 261; as umpire, 267; skill in retracing steps, 277; relics and geographical names, 297; good manners, 300; devil (or cougar), the, 306; reticence and talkativeness, 318, 319; sickness, 319, 320; indifference, 326, habitation, signs of previous, 4, 84, 85; 6, 311, 315, 316, 336.
• Indian Island, 3, 92, 174, 326, 327.
• Indian summer, 6, 38, 340.
• Indoors, living, 5, 207-209.
• Infidelity, the real, 1, 77.
• Ingraham, Cato, slave of Duncan, 2, 283.
• Inherited property a misfortune, 2, 5.
• Injustice, 6, 228.
• Inn, inscription on wall of Swedish, 5, 141.
• Insect foes, 3, 246.
• Inspector of storms, self-appointed, 2, 19, 20.
• Inspiration, quatrain, 5, 418.
• Inspiration, verse, 5, 396.
• Institutions, the burden of, 1, 135, 136.
• Invertebrate Animals, report on quoted, 5, 129.
• Inward Morning, The, verse, 1, 313.
• Iolaus, and hydra's head, 2, 5.
• Ireland, Alexander, 6, 155, 157.
• Irish, physical condition of the poor, 2, 38, 39.
• Irishmen, 6, 116, 149.
• Islands, 1, 257, 258; Clark's, 6, 301, 328; Staten, xi, 65, 68, 117.
• "It doth expand my privacies," verse, 1, 182.
• "It is no dream of mine," verse, 2, 215.
• Italian discoverers, 4, 234, 235.
• Jackson, Dr. Charles T., 3, 4, 10; quoted, regarding altitude of Ktaadn, 72; on Moosehead Lake, 104; sketches in Reports of, 120; quoted, regarding hornstone on Mount Kineo, 194, 195; 6, 35, note, 144.
• Jackson, Miss Lidian (Mrs. R. W. Emerson.) See Emerson.
• Jackson, Miss Lucy (Mrs. Brown), 6, 35, note, 42, note, 49, 50, 113, 136, 329, note; letters to, 35-49.
• Jaffrey (N. H.), 6, 330.
• Jail in Concord, 6, 52.
• Jamblichus, quoted, 1, 184.
• James, Henry, Sr., meets T., 6, 68, 80; mentioned, 85, 101; his sons, 103, 122, 346, 347.
• Jarvis, Dr. Edward (H. U. 1826), 6, 21.
• Jaundice, 6, 118, 152.
• Jays, arrival of the, 2, 303, 304; 5, 108, 199.
• Jeremiah's Gutter, 4, 36.
• Jerusalem Village (Mass.), 4, 16.
• Jesuit Relations, quoted, 5, 96.
• Jesuits, and Indian torture, 2, 83; early in New England, 4, 232; Barracks, the, in Quebec, 5, 24.
• Jesus Christ, the effect of the story of, 1, 67; prince of Reformers and Radicals, 142; liberalizing influence of, 2, 120.
• Joe Merry Lakes, the, 3, 45.
• Joe Merry Mountain, 3, 38, 51, 218.
• Joel, the prophet, quoted, 5, 322.
• Johnson, Edward, quoted, 1, 8; 2, 42, 43.
• Jones, Dr. S. A., 6, 403.
• Jones family, 6, 12, note, 91, 104.
• Jones, Sir William, 1, 154.
• Jonson, Ben, quoted, 5, 226.
• Josselyn, John, 1, 27, 29; quoted, 3, 156, 164; 4, 98; quoted, 5, 2.
• Judge and criminal, 6, 227, 228.
• Justice, the administration of, 4, 395, 396.
• Kalm, Travels in North America, quoted, 4, 126, 201; 5, 21, 30, 39, 65; on sea-plants near Quebec, 93.
• Kalmiana. See Nuphar.
• Kane, Dr. E. K., 6, 362.
• Katepskonegan Falls, 3, 52; Carry, 81.
• Katepskonegan Lake, 3, 50, 57.
• Katepskonegan Stream, 3, 50.
• Kearsage, 1, 86.
• Keene (N. H.) Street, 5, 4; heads like, 4.
• Kelp, 4, 67-70.
• Kenduskeag, meaning of, 3, 156.
• Kennebec River, the, 3, 5, 40, 103, 183, 188, 233, 272.
• Kent, the Duke of, property of, 5, 38.
• Khoung-tseu, 2, 105.
• Kieou-he-yu, 2,105.
• Killington Peak, 5, 6.
• Kineo, Mount, 3, 101-103, 156, 183, 186, 189; Indian tradition of origin of, 190; hornstone on, 194; 196, 203, 260, 299; 6, 325.
• Kirby, William, and Spence, quoted, 2, 237, 256.
• Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline, 6, 288.
• Kittlybenders, let us not play at, 2, 363.
• Knife, an Indian, 3, 156.
• Knots of the Alcott arbor, 6, 136, 137.
• Knowledge, the slow growth of, 5, 181; Society for the Diffusion of Useful, 239; true, 240.
• Kossuth, the excitement about, 4, 470, 471.
• Kreeshna, teachings of, 1, 144-146.
• Ktaadn, 3, 3-90.
• Ktaadn, Mount, 3, 1; ascents of, 3-5; view of, 23; first view of, 36; 38; the flat summit of, 49; 58, 61; T.'s ascent of, 63-76; altitude of, 72; 96, 121, 136, 167, 215, 218, 249, 257, 260, 297, 312, 313; 6, 132, 255.
• Labor, uses of, 6, 63, 116, 170, 171, 221, 222; results of, 165, 166, 170, 171, 182, note.
• Laborer, choosing occupation of a day, 2, 77; falling in pond with many clothes on, 83.
• Laboring man has no time to be anything but a machine, the, 2, 6, 7.
• Labrador and East Main, health in the words, 5, 104.
• Labrador tea, 6, 327.
• Ladies'-tresses, 1, 18.
• "Lady's Companion," a magazine, 6, 107, 108.
• Laing, Samuel, quoted, 2, 29, 30.
• Lake, the earth's eye, a, 2, 206; country of New England, the, 3, 40; a woodland, in winter, 5, 174, 175.
• Lake Champlain, Long Wharf to, 2, 132; 5, 6-8.
• Lake St. Peter, 5, 96, 97.
• Lalemant, Hierosme, quoted, 5, 22.
• Lamentations, 6, 41, 42, 179, 180, 213, 214, 226, 229.
• Lamprey eel, 1, 31; 6, 127.
• Lampyris noctiluca, 6, 310, 327, 328.
• Lancaster (Mass.), 1, 169; 5, 138, 139, 149.
• Land and water, 6, xi, 14, 69, 83, 267, 268, 301.
• Landlord, The, 5, 153-162.
• Landlord, qualities of the, 5, 153-162.
• Lane, Charles (English reformer), 6, 52, 58, 64, 90, 104, 125; writes for the "Dial," 59-63.
• La Prairie (Que.), 5, 11, 18, 99.
• Lar, 6, 67.
• Larch, extensive wood of, 3, 231.
• Lark, the, 5, 109, 110.
• Last Days of John Brown, The, 4, 441-450.
• "Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy," verse, 1, 276.
• Latin, grammars, 6, 25; epistle, 27-29; pronunciation, 25; writers mentioned or quoted, viii, xi, 27, 28.
• Lawrence (Mass.), 1, 89.
• Laws, beautiful, 6, 177; eternal, 173.
• "Leach-hole" in Walden Pond, 2, 322.
• Lead, rain of, 5, 26.
• Leaf, resemblance of sand-formation to a, 2, 338.
• Leaves, fallen, 5, 264-270; scarlet oak, 278-281.
• Lectures, by T., 6, 6, 145, 150, 154, 189-192, 232, 233, 244, 251, 276, 289, 303, 349.
• Ledum (Labrador tea), 6, 327.
• Lee's Hill, 6, 15, note; alias Nashawtuc or Naushawtuck, 6, 15, 27, 30.
• Lee-vites, a nickname, 6, 15, note.
• Legs, the, as compasses, 4, 88.
• Lescarbot, quoted, regarding abundance of fishes, 3, 60; 4, 240, 249.
• "Let such pure hate still underprop," verse, 1, 305.
• Leuciscus (argenteus, pulchellus), 6, 127, 131.
• Letters:
  • From Louis Agassiz, 6, 129.
  • From A. B. Alcott, 6, 397; to him, 282.
  • From H. G. O. Blake, 6, 158, 159; to him, 160, 164, 173, 174, 177, 179, 185, 194, 197, 209, 217, 221, 225, 229, 258, 292, 302, 307, 308, 314, 330, 343, 349, 358, 360, 364, 368, 383.
  • From Myron B. Benton, 6, 398; to him, 399.
  • To Mrs. Lucy Cotton Brown, 6, 35, 37, 40, 43, 46.
  • From J. E. Cabot, 6, 130, 131; to him, 126, 128, 155.
  • From Ellery Channing, 6, 121, 271.
  • From Thomas Cholmondeley, 6, 380; to him, 245.
  • From R. W. Emerson, 6, 49, 58, 83, note, 94, note, 102, 104, 120, 125, 142, 155; to him, 50, 54, 59, 62, 78, 80, 92, 101, 107, 113, 135, 142, 144, 148, 151, 157, 183.
  • From Mrs. R. W. Emerson, 6, 64; to her, 76, 87, 112.
  • To Calvin H. Greene, 6, 408-412.
  • To Isaac Hecker, 6, 405, 407.
  • To T. W. Higginson, 6, 189, 323.
  • From Miss Elizabeth Hoar, 6, 116.
  • To Parker Pillsbury, 6, 378.
  • From James Richardson, 6, 10, note.
  • From Daniel Ricketson, 6, 238, 246, 257; to him, 239, 240, 246, 261, 263, 266, 270, 273, 284, 285, 304, 311, 313, 337, 341, 350, 353, 376.
  • To F. B. Sanborn, 6, 249, 385.
  • To Cynthia Thoreau, 6, 68, 84, 89, 98, 104, 108.
  • To Helen Thoreau, 6, 12, 25, 27, 32, 74, 95, 117.
  • To John Thoreau, Jr., 6, 13, 19, 23.
  • To Sophia Thoreau, 6, 31, 71, 132, 193, 286, 363.
  • From B. M. Watson, 6, 190, 327; to him, 6, 191, 309, 327.
  • To B. B. Wiley, 6, 298, 300.
• Lexington (Mass.), 2, 306.
• Libraries, at Cambridge, 6, 252; at Concord, 270; at New York, 81, 106, 109, 114, 122.
• Liebig, J. F. von, quoted, 2, 14.
• Life, the world and, 1, 310-316; cares and labors of, 2, 6, 7; an experiment, 10; students not to play or study, but to live, 56, 57; purposes of, 100, 101; one has imagined living the, 356; live your, however mean, 361; in us, like the water in the river, 366; emptiness of ordinary, 6, 161, 162, 179, 209, 210, 213, 214, 230; eternal, 161, 164, 173, 174, 194, 225; facts of, 44, 162, 212; labyrinth of, 173; mean aspects of, 79, 82, 229; phenomena of, xi, xii, 40, 47, 199, 203, 204, 216, 221, 222, 268, 328; qualifications for practical, 7, 11, 34, 59, 135, 171; spiritual and material, 9, 88, 160, 214, 227.
• Life without Principle, 4, 455-482.
• Light. See Moonlight and Sunset.
• "Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird," verse, 2, 279.
• Lilac, growing by deserted houses, 2, 290.
• Lily, the yellow, 3, 209, 291; roots, gathering, 309; roots, soup of, 317.
• Lily Bay, 3, 97, 99.
• Limits of living, 2, 7.
• Lincoln, Abraham, 6, 283, 378, 380.
• Lincoln (Me.), 3, 9, 85, 260, 319, 321, 322.
• Lincoln (Mass.), 1, 5; 2, 95, 136, 173, 282; owls in woods of, 138, 139; Flint's Pond in, 216; chestnut woods of, 263; burying-ground, 284, 299; 5, 282, 283.
• Lining of beauty for houses, 2, 44.
• Linnæus (Linné, Karl von), quoted, 5, 222; 6, 207, 208.
• Litchfield (N. H.), 1, 204, 206, 227.
• Little Reading, 2, 116.
• Little Schoodic River, the, 3, 23.
• Living, getting a, 4, 457-462. See Life.
• Lobster Pond, 3, 106, 210.
• Lobster Stream, 3, 105, 210.
• Lockwood. See F. J. Merriam.
• Locusts, 3, 254; 6, 90.
• Log house, a, 3, 138.
• Loggers, camps of, 3, 20; a gang of, 38.
• Logs, from woods to market, sending, 3, 46-49.
• London, 6, 137, 155, 343, 362.
• Londonderry (N. H.), 1, 92, 268.
• Loneliness, desirable, 2, 147, 151, 152.
• Long Pond, 6, 264.
• Long River (La Rivière Longue), 6, 389.
• Long Wharf, taking a place at, 4, 267.
• Longfellow, H. W., 6, 101, 251, 345, note.
• Longueuil (Que.), 5, 20.
• Loon, hunting, and a game with the, 2, 258-262; Indian word for, 3, 182; cry of the, 247, 248.
• Loring, E. G., 4, 389, 393, 394.
• Lost, in the lakes, experienced woodmen. 3, 41; in the woods, T.'s companion, 285-290.
• Lost dove, horse, and hound, 6, 301.
• Loudon, John Claudius, quoted, 5, 197, 200, 291, 292, 310.
• Louisa, Aunt (Dunbar), 6, 99.
• Love, the power of, 4, 304, 305; charms of, 198-200, 204, 205, 206, 208; corrupted, 199, 206, 208; potency of, 201, 203, 204; and marriage, 198-209, 302. See Friendship.
• "Love once among roses," verse, 1, 244.
• "Love walking swiftly," verse, 1, 242.
• "Lovely dove," verse, 1, 241.
• Lovewell, Captain, and his Indian fight, 1, 123; John, father of, 168, 176; 3, 245.
• "Low-anchored cloud," verse, 1, 201.
• "Low in the eastern sky," verse, 1, 46; 5, 400.
• Lowell, James Russell (H. U. 1838), 6, 61, 251, 345, 395.
• Lowell (Mass.), 1, 4, 31, 32, 39, 85, 87, 89, 115, 117, 225, 251, 264.
• Lowell, Mrs., 6, 24.
• Lucretius, 6, xi.
• Luxury, fruit of a life of, 2, 16.
• Lyceum, the, 1, 102; 2, 121, 122; 6, 6, 49, 51, 52, 61, 115, 145, 150, 154, 275; at Salem, 191; at Worcester, 303.
• Lydgate, John, quoted, 1, 57.
• Lyman, Benjamin Smith (H. U. 1855), 6, 252.
• Lynx, Canada, 6, 355.
• Lyttelton, Lord, 6, 383.
• Macaulay, Rev. Zachary, 6, 272, note.
• McCauslin, or "Uncle George," weather-bound at farm of, 3, 23-29; good services as guide by, 40-42.
• McCulloch's Geographical Dictionary, quoted, 5, 49.
• McGaw's Island, 1, 245.
• McKean, Henry Swasey (H. U. 1828), 6, 109, 114, 122.
• Mackerel, fishing for, 4, 179-184, 189, 190; 6, 229; fleet, the, 198, 261.
• McTaggart, John, quoted, 5, 94.
• MacTavish, Simon, 5, 98.
• Mad River, 1, 87.
• Madawaska, the, 3, 80; 6, 323-326.
• Mahabarat, 6, 300.
• Maiden in the East, 6, 329, note.
• Maine, mountainous region of, 3, 4; intelligence of backwoodsmen in, 24; view of, 73; the forest of, 88; 6, 6, 132, 145, 254, 311, 315, 322, 324-326.
• Make-a-Stir, Squire, 2, 8.
• Male and female, 6, 198, 207.
• Mallet for flints, 6, 19.
• Man, 6, 12, 31, 37; his activity, 167, 173, 213, 214; his bread, 164, 165; his duty, 167, 186; his education, 178, 221, 222; his freedom, 175, 188, 196; his generation, 208; his immortality, 259, 294; his meanness, 179, 226.
• Man, translation, 5, 383.
• Man, The Divine in, translation, 5, 386.
• Manchester (N. H.), 1, 89, 225, 250, 251; Mfg. Co., 259, 260; 264, 268, 274.
• Manilla hemp, 2, 132.
• Mankind, 6, 8, 9, 31, 80, 136, 209, 210.
• Mann, Horace, Jr., 6, 385, 392.
• "Man's little acts are grand," verse, 1, 224.
• Manse, the Old, 6, 42, 51.
• Map, of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts, 3, 17, 101, 104, 308; drawing, on kitchen table, 5, 60; of Canada, inspecting a, 95.
• Maple, the red and sugar, 5, 6; the red, 258-263, 265; the sugar, 261, 271-278.
• Maple sugar, 6, 278.
• Maples, autumn colors of, 2, 265; 5, 6, 258-263, 265, 271-278.
• Maps of Cape Cod, and New England, 4, 227-231, 234; of walking tours, 6, 329, 335.
• Marañon, the river, 5, 93.
• Maria, Aunt (Thoreau's), 6, 118.
• Mark-Lane Gazette, 6, 124.
• Marlborough (Mass.), 5, 214.
• Marlborough Chapel, 6, 129.
• Marriage, a sign of, 3, 232; 6, 139, 199, 200, 204, 205, 207-209, 302.
• Mars' Hill, 3, 8.
• Marston, John, of Taunton, 6, 21.
• Marston-Watson, Benjamin (H. U. 1839), 6, 43. See Watson.
• Marvell, Andrew, quoted, 4, 451.
• Massabesic, Lake, 1, 89; Pond, 250.
• Massachusetts, T.'s wish not to be associated with, 1, 135; the attitude of, towards slavery, 4, 362, 363; duty of the Abolitionists in, 369; slavery in, 388; the governor of, 389-392; judges, 401, 402; unworthy to be followed, 403-406; the share of, in Harper's Ferry, 430, 431; election in, 6, 16, 18, 141.
• Massachusetts Bay, shallowness of, 4, 124.
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections of the, 4, 20.
• Massachusetts Quarterly Review, 6, 144.
• Massasoit, visited by Winslow, 2, 158.
• Matahumkeag, 3, 107; meaning of the word, 157; 210.
• Matanancook River, the, 3, 321.
• Mathematics, 1, 386.
• Mattaseunk, 3, 18.
• Mattawamkeag, the, 3, 12, 13, 16; meaning of the name, 157; 256.
• Mattawamkeag Point, 3, 4, 11, 38, 88, 316, 319.
• Matungamook Lake, 3, 295.
• Maturing, no need of haste towards, 2, 359.
• Maxims. See Aphorisms.
• May, Rev. Joseph, (H. U. 1857), 6, 451.
• May, Rev. Samuel Joseph, (H. U. 1818), 6, 390.
• Meadow River, Musketaquid or, 1, 8.
• Meadows, of Concord, 6, 36, 92, 250, 334; birds in the, 14; cranberries in, 204.
• Meanness complained of, 6, 88, 173, 175, 176, 187.
• Meat and drink, 6, 164, 165.
• Medicine, 6, 15-17.
• Medicine, Yellow-river, 6, 391.
• Meeting-houses, 6, 195, 336, 359; meeting-house cellar, 322.
• Melancholy, 6, 41, 182, 209.
• Melon, buying a, 1, 335; 6, ix.
• Memorial Verses, by Channing, 6, 65, note.
• Memory, 6, 26, 41, 42, 93, 106; of former life, 179, 210, 211.
• Men, in crowds, 6, 79, 82, 83; of God, 214.
• "Men are by birth equal in this, that given," verse, 1, 311.
• "Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend," verse, 1, 373.
• Mencius, quoted, 1, 280; 2, 242, 243.
• Mending, 6, 108, 363.
• Menhaden, schools of, 4, 120.
• Mentors, of little use, 2, 10.
• Menu, the laws of, 1, 154-161.
• Merit and demerit, 6, 87, 88, 97, 98, 145, 161, 162.
• Merlin, 6, 227.
• Merriam, Francis Jackson, 6, 366-368.
• Merrimack (N. H.), 1, 225, 227, 251, 353, 357, 391.
• Merrimack River, 1, 8, 19, 62, 63, 80, 81; origin and course of the, 85-92; 113, 122, 150, 169, 170, 174, 177, 181, 189, 200, 202, 203, 204; the Gazetteer quoted, 206, 207, 209, 210, 225, 226, 227, 232, 251, 259, 260, 263, 269, 271, 309, 321, 345, 354; freshet on the, 379, 383, 391; 5, 147; 6, 6.
• Message, the President's, 6, 379.
• Methods of action, 6, 8, 9, 33, 47, 56, 67, 88, 89, 108, 118.
• Mice, visited by, on Hoosac Mountain, 1, 196; sent to Agassiz, 6, 128, 132.
• Michaux on lumbering, quoted, 3, 48.
• Michaux, André, quoted, 5, 269.
• Michaux, François André, quoted, 5, 220, 261, 301.
• Microscope, 6, 361.
• Middleborough, Bennet's Account of, 6, 264, 265.
• Middlesex (Mass.), 1, 62, 80, 226, 385.
• Middlesex Cattle Show, 2, 36.
• Midnight, exploring the, 5, 323.
• Mikania, the climbing, 1, 43.
• Milford (Me.), 3, 7.
• Milky Way? Is not our planet in the, 2, 147.
• Miller, a crabbed, 5, 69.
• Millinocket Lake, 3, 29, 41, 73, 260.
• Millinocket River, 3, 29, 31, 86-88, 223.
• Mill's "British India," 6, 271, note.
• Milne, Alexander, quoted, 5, 193, 194.
• Milton, John, quoted, 6, 274.
• Milton, the town, 6, 219.
• Minding his business, till ineligible as town officer, T., 2, 20.
• Minerva, Momus objects to house of, 2, 37.
• Ministers, on Monday morning, 1, 123; with, on Ktaadn, 3, 214; salaries of country, 4, 45; some old Cape Cod, 48-55.
• Minnesota, Indians of, 6, 389, 390; rivers of, 386-389; trip to, 252, note, 380, 384-386.
• Minnows, 6, 127, 128, 131, 132.
• Minot's Ledge, the light on, 4, 262, 263.
• Minott, George, 6, 52, 91, 92, 106, 374, 375.
• Minott, Mary, 6, 374, 376.
• Mîr Camar Uddin Mast, quoted, 2, 111.
• Mirabeau, on highway robbery, quoted, 2, 355.
• Mirages on sand and sea, 4, 190-193.
• Mirror, New York Weekly, 6, 107, 111.
• Misanthropy, not a trait of T., 6, xii, 238.
• Miscellany, Boston, 6, 83, note, 102, note.
• Mission, verse, 5, 418.
• Mississippi, discovery of the, 5, 90; extent of the, 93; a panorama of the, 224; 6, 384, 386, 389.
• Missouri Compromise, 4, 408.
• Mizzling of sixpences, 6, 83.
• Model farm, a, 2, 218.
• "Modern improvements," an illusion about, 2, 57, 58.
• "Modern Painters," 6, 319.
• Mohawk Rips, the, 3, 322.
• Mohawk traditions, 3, 154.
• Moisture in Cape Cod air, 4, 165.
• Molasses, Molly, 3, 174.
• Molunkus (Me.), 3, 13, 15.
• Momus, objection to Minerva's house by, 2, 37.
• Monadnock Mountain, 1, 173; 5, 4, 143, 145, 147; 6, 329, 330, 364, 365, 368-372.
• Monday, 1, 121-187.
• Money, making, the evil of, 4, 458-461; 6, 161, 162, 318, 332; hard, 318.
• Monhegan Island, 3, 94.
• Monson (Me.), 3, 97, 98, 161.
• Montcalm, Wolfe and, monument to, 5, 73, 74.
• Montmorenci County, 5, 62; the habitans of, 64-68.
• Montmorenci, Falls of, 5, 29, 37-39.
• Montreal (Que.), 5, 9, 11; described, 14-16; the mixed population of, 17, 18; from Quebec to, 96, 97; and its surroundings, beautiful view of, 98; the name of, 98.
• Monuments, graveyards and, 1, 177; descendants more dead than, 269; good sense worth more than, 2, 64; at Concord, 6, 24.
• Moon, The, verse, 5, 406.
• Moonlight, Night and, 5, 323-333.
• Moonlight, reading by, 5, 145.
• Moonshine, 5, 324, 325.
• Moore, Thomas, 5, 98.
• Moore's Falls, 1, 245.
• Moose, sign of, 3, 58, 65, 108; carcass of a, 109; night expedition in vain hunt for, 110-115; shooting at and wounding a, 122-124; found, measured, and skinned, 125-130; Indian ideas about, 153; Indian tradition of evolution of, from the whale, 163; shooting and skinning a, on Second Lake, 292-295; 6, 311, 326, 336, 339.
• Moose River, 3, 189.
• Moose wardens, laxness of, 3, 231.
• Moose-flies, 3, 246.
• Moosehead Lake, 3, 45, 46, 73, 95, 97, 99, 100; steamers and sail-boats on, 104, 108, 117, 145, 150, 152, 155; Indian name for, 159, 175, 176, 181, 183; extent of, 184, 188, 193, 231, 252, 255; dragon-fly on, 272, 299, 322; 6, 321, 324.
• Moosehillock, 1, 86.
• Moosehorn Deadwater, 3, 109.
• Moosehorn Stream, the, 3, 111, 113, 117, 118, 145, 216.
• Moose-wood, 3, 65; phosphorescent light in, 199.
• Morning, impressions of, 1, 42; work, a man's, 2, 40; renewal of, 98-100; work in the early, 172, 173; winter, early, 5, 163-166. See Sunrise.
• Morrison, John, head of a lumber-gang, 3, 38.
• Mortgages, abundance of, in Concord, 2, 35, 36.
• Morton, Edwin (H. U. 1855), 6, 252, 301, note, 380.
• Morton, Thomas, 5, 2.
• Mosquitoes, 3, 246, 310, 311.
• Mott, Mrs. Lucretia, 6, 97.
• Mount Ararat in Provincetown, 4, 190.
• Mount Monadnock. See Monadnock.
• Mount Royal (Montreal), 5, 11.
• Mount Washington, 6, 320, 321, 334.
• Mountain-ash, 3, 94.
• Mountain-tops, 3, 71.
• Mountains, the use of, 5, 148, 149; and plain, influence of the, 150, 151; 6, 195, 196, 215, 316, 319, 323, 329, 330, 334-336, 347, 360, 363, 368, 369.
• Mourt's Relation, quoted, 4, 38, 94, 251.
• Mouse, in T.'s house, 2, 249, 250; the wild, 309.
• Mud Pond, 3, 233, 237, 238, 240, 243, 244; 6, 325.
• Mud-puddle, the sun in a, 6, 242.
• Munroe, James, publisher, 6, 61, 125, 182, 332.
• Murch Brook, 3, 58, 64, 74.
• Muse, The Venality of the, translation 5, 389.
• Muses, 6, 45, 178.
• Music, the suggestions of, 1, 183-209; 6, 41, 42, note, 45, 46, 75, 193, 231, 263. See Earth-song, Sounds.
• Musketaquid, Grass-ground, Prairie, or Concord River, the, 1, 3, 8; 5, 115; 6, 13, 60, 258.
• Muskrat (musquash), a colony, 2, 185; in Goose Pond, 299; calling a, 3, 227; 5, 114-117; house of, 6, 221.
• Musquash. See Muskrat.
• Mussel, the, 5, 129.
• "My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read," verse, 1, 320.
• "My life has been the poem I would have writ," verse, 1, 365.
• "My life is like a stroll upon the beach," verse, 1, 255.
• "My life more civil is and free," verse, 5, 415.
• "My love must be as free," verse, 1, 297.
• Myself and Yourself, 6, 215, 361.
• Mystics, 6, 150.
• Mythology, ancient history, 1, 60.
• Nahant (Mass.), 3, 170.
• Names, of places, longing for English, 1, 54; poetry in, 5, 20; of places, French, 56, 57; men's, 236, 237; of colors, 273, 574.
• Nantasket (Mass.), 4, 16.
• Nashua (N. H.), 1, 87, 89, 115, 116, 126, 151, 152, 169, 170, 173, 179, 391.
• Nashua River, the, 1, 375.
• Nashville (N. H.), 1, 175, 179.
• Naticook Brook, 1, 227.
• Natural History of Massachusetts, 5, 103-131.
• Natural history, reading books of, 5, 103, 105.
• Natural life, the, 1, 405.
• Nature, adorned, 1, 18, 19; laws of, for man, 34; indifference of, 117; provisions of, for end of her creatures, 236; tame and wild, 337; and Art, 339; composing her poem Autumn, 403; adapted to our weakness as to our strength, 2, 12; a liberty in, 143; no melancholy or solitude in the midst of, 145-147; the medicines of, 153; known only as a robber by the farmer, 183; men who become a part of, 232, 233; questions and answers of, 312; our knowledge of the laws of, 320; helping lay the keel of, 334; principle of operations of, 340; man's need of, 350; the earth as made by, 3, 77, 78; always young, 89, 90; the coarse use of, 133; health to be found in, 5, 105; man's work the most natural compared with that of, 119; the hand of, upon her children, 124, 125; different methods of work, 125; the civilized look of, 141; the winter purity of, 167; a hortus siccus in, 179; men's relation to, 241, 242; love of, 6, 3, 37, 64, 231, 277; objects of, 9, 36, 37, 71, 74, 75, 83, 87, 93.
• Nature, verse, 5, 395.
• "Nature doth have her dawn each day," verse, 1, 302.
• "Nature has given horns," verse, 1, 242.
• Nauset Harbor, in Orleans, 4, 31, 64.
• Nauset Lights, 4, 41.
• Nawshawtuct Hill, 5, 384.
• Nebraska Bill, the, 4, 403.
• Necessaries of life, 2, 12, 13.
• Necessity, a seeming fate, commonly called, 2, 6.
• Negro slavery, 2, 8.
• Neighborhood, avoiding a bad, ourselves, 2, 37.
• Neptune, Louis, 3, 10, 86; a call on governor, 162, 163; the old chief, 174.
• Neptune, the god, 6, 28; the planet, 138.
• Nerlumskeechticook Mountain, 3, 249, 260, 291, 297, 298, 301.
• Nesenkeag, 1, 206.
• Nests, fishes', 1, 24, 25; 6, 63, 161.
• Neva marshes at Walden Pond, no, 2, 23.
• New Bedford, 6, 235-240, 258, 261, 263, 265, 271, 274, 313, 333, 341, 342, 352, 359, 396.
• New clothes, beware of all enterprises requiring, 2, 26.
• Newcomb, Charles, 6, 298, note.
• New England, Arcadian element in the life of, 1, 256; "Walden" of and for people of, 2, 4; hardships endured that men may die in, 15; wealth causes respect in, 25; mean life lived by inhabitants of, 107; can hire all the wise men of the world to teach her, 122; natural sports of, 233; Rum, 285; Night's entertainment, a, 297.
• New Hampshire, 1, 85; for the Antipodes, leaving, 151; man, a, 211; line, crossing the, 377; 6, 329, 331, 334-336, 363, 365.
• New Hollander, naked when European shivers in clothes, 2, 14.
• New Jersey, 6, 70, 283-290.
• New Netherland, Secretary of Province, quoted, 2, 43.
• "New Orleans Crescent" and Whitman, 6, 291.
• New Testament, the, 1, 72-75, 142; practicalness of, 146; 6, 137.
• New things to be seen near home, 5, 211, 212.
• Newbury (Mass.), 1, 87.
• Newbury port (Mass.), 1, 87-89.
• Newfound Lake, 1, 87, 89.
• News, getting the, from ocean steamers, 1, 253; "What's the," 2, 104; futility of the, 104.
• Newspapers, reading, on Hoosac Mountain, 1, 194; influence and servility of Boston, 4, 398-400; and John Brown, 416, 417; evils of reading the, 471-476; 6, 175, 176, 180, 186.
• Newton, Sir Isaac, 6, 136.
• "New World," 6, 107, note.
• New York, 6, 18, 35, 50, 53, 62, 68, 70, 72, 78-80, 83-87, 90, 95, 101, 107, note, 109, 117, 121, 283, 287, 291, 296, 297.
• New Zealand, 6, 236, 255, 381, 383, note.
• Niagara, 6, 384.
• Nicketow (Me.) 3, 7, 19, 260, 316, 319.
• Niebuhr, Barthold George, quoted, 5, 290.
• Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore, quoted, 5, 238.
• Night, thoughts in the, 1, 354; walking the woods by, 2, 187-190; in the woods, a, 3, 43-45; thoughts by a stream at, 131; sounds in the woods at, 247, 248; on Wachusett, 5, 146; the senses in the, 5, 327, 328; on the mountain, 6, 371; on the river, 231. See Sunset.
• Night and Moonlight, 5, 323-333.
• Nightfall, 1, 37-40, 117.
• Nilometer. See Realometer.
• Nine Acre Corner, 1, 5; White Pond in, 2, 199.
• Nix's mate, story of, 4, 267.
• "No Admittance," never painted on T.'s gate, 2, 18.
• "No generous action can delay," verse, 5, 418.
• Noah's dove, 6, 48.
• Nobscot Hill, 5, 303, 304; 6, 280.
• Noliseemack, Shad Pond or, 3, 29.
• North Adams (Mass.), 1, 185.
• North Bridge, 1, 14, 16, 33.
• North River (Assabet), 1, 4.
• North Twin Lake, 3, 39, 80, 84.
• Northeaster, a, 4, 204, 209-211.
• Norumbega, 4, 239; 5, 90.
• Norwegian immigrants, 6, 110.
• No-see-em, midge called, 3, 245, 246.
• "Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head," verse, 5, 144.
• Notes from the Journal of a Scholar (Charles Emerson), 6, 94.
• Notre Dame (Montreal), 5, 11; a visit to, 12-14.
• Notre Dame des Anges, Seigniory of, 5, 96.
• Nova Scotia, 6, 338.
• Novel-reading, 2, 116, 117.
• "Now chiefly is my natal hour," verse, 1, 182.
• Nuptials, of plants, 6, 207; of mankind, 204, 205.
• Nurse-plants, 5, 193.
• Nuthatch, the, 5, 108.
• Nuts, 6, 3, 216, 300.
• Nuttall, Thomas, quoted, 5, 111, 112.
• Nutting, in Lincoln woods, 2, 263, 264.
• Nutting, Sam, an old hunter, 2, 308.
• Oak, succeeding pine, and vice versa, 5, 185, 187, 189; the scarlet, 278-281; leaves, scarlet, 278-280.
• Oak Hall hand-bill and carry, 3, 55, 83.
• Observatory on Hoosac Mountain, the, 1, 197.
• Ocean, calm, rough, and fruitful, 4, 124-128; beaches across the, 177, 178; its phenomena, 6, xi, 70, 133.
• October, the best season for visiting the Cape, 4, 272.
• Ode to Beauty, Emerson's, 6, 115-117.
• "Oft, as I turn me on my pillow o'er," verse, 1, 384.
• Ogilby, America of 1670, quoted, 5, 91.
• Olamon Mountains, 3, 323.
• Olamon River, the, and meaning of word, 3, 324.
• Olata, the swift-sailing yacht, 4, 265.
• Old Fort Hill, 3, 166.
• Old Marlborough Road, The, verse, 5, 214.
• Oldtown (Me.), 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 88, 142, 152, 153, 160, 161, 166, 167, 174, 192, 202, 204, 222, 226, 259, 272, 274, 313, 320, 322, 323, 325-327.
• Olympia, 6, 55.
• Olympia at Evening, translation, 5, 378.
• Olympus, the outside of the earth, everywhere, 2, 94; 6, 93.
• Omnipresence, verse, 5, 417.
• "O nature! I do not aspire," verse, 5, 395.
• On a Silver Cup, verse, 1, 240.
• On Himself, 1, 241.
• On His Lyre, verse, 1, 240.
• On Love, verse, 1, 242.
• On Lovers, verse, 1, 243.
• "On Ponkawtasset, since we took our way," verse, 1, 16.
• On Women, verse, 1, 242.
• "One more is gone," verse, 5, 405.
• Opera, 6, 216, 322.
• Opposition to society, 2, 355.
• Oracles of Quarles, 6, 112.
• Orchard House, 6, 333, note.
• Orchis, the great round-leaved, 3, 240.
• Organ-grinders on the Cape, 4, 30.
• Oriel College, Oxford, 6, 236, 342.
• Oriental, Occidental and, 1, 147; exclusion of the, in Western learning, 148, 149; quality in New England life, the, 256, 257.
• Origin of Rhodes, translation, 5, 376.
• "Origin of Species," Darwin's, 6, 382.
• Orinoco, the river, 5, 93.
• Orleans (Mass.), 4, 22; Higgins's tavern at, 29.
• Orleans, Isle of, 5, 41, 42.
• Ornaments, significance of architectural, 2, 52.
• Orono (Me.), 3, 92.
• Orsinora, 5, 90.
• Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 5, 89.
• Osborn, Rev. Samuel, 4, 52, 53.
• Osier, red, Indian word for, 3, 188.
• Osprey, 6, 46.
• Ossian, 1, 366-571, 393; quoted, 5, 332.
• Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, 6, 183-186.
• Ossoli, Marquis of, 6, 184-186.
• O'Sullivan, 6, 51, 102, 107.
• Ottawa River, the, 5, 41, 94, 98.
• Otternic Pond, 1, 169.
• Oui, the repeated, 5, 60.
• "Our unenquiring corpses lie more low," verse, 1, 227.
• Overseer, yourself the worst, 2, 8.
• Ovid, quoted, 1, 2, 228; 2, 6, 346, 348.
• Owl, winged brother of the cat, watching an, 2, 293.
• Owls, wailing of, 2, 138-140; in Walden woods in winter, 300, 301; 6, 77, 154.
• "Packed in my mind lie all the clothes," verse, 1, 313.
• Packs, of tourists, 6, 335, 336, 368.
• Paddling, a lesson in, 3, 325, 326.
• Painted-cup, 6, 71.
• Paley, William, on Duty of Submission to Civil Government, quoted, 4, 361, 362.
• Palladius, quoted, 5, 294, 308.
• Palmer, Edward, 6, 82, 97.
• Palmer, Joseph, at Fruitlands, 6, 143, 155.
• Pamadumcook Lakes, the, 3, 30, 45, 47, 84; meaning of the word, 156; 260.
• Pamet River, 4, 134.
• Pan, not dead, 1, 65; and Whitman, 6, 298.
• Pandora's box, 6, 20.
• Pantaloons, not to be mended like legs, 2, 24.
• Paradise (to be) Regained, 4, 280-305.
• Paradise, 6, 10, 111, 162.
• Parcæ, the, 6, 149.
• Parker House, 6, 344, 345.
• Parker, Theodore, 6, 53, 237, 343, 355.
• Parkman, Deacon, 6, 6, note.
• Parkman, Francis, 6, 6.
• Parkman house, 6, 6.
• Parliament, provinciality of the English, 4, 477, 478.
• Parlor lectures, 6, 192, 352.
• Partheanna, 6, 55.
• Parthian army, 6, 153.
• Partridge, the, 2, 250-252, 304, 311; 6, 60.
• Partridge-berries, 6, 195.
• Pasaconaway, 1, 267, 269.
• Pascal and Henry James, 6, 122.
• Passadumkeag River, the, 3, 8, 9, 323, 324.
• Passamagamet Falls, 3, 51; "warping up," 53; 84.
• Passamagamet Lake, 3, 50, 51.
• Passamagamet Stream, 3, 50, 51.
• Passamaquoddy River, the, 3, 5, 91.
• "Past and Present," 6, 81, 101.
• Past, darkness of the, 1, 163.
• Patent Office, seeds sent by the, 5, 203.
• Patmore, Coventry, his "Angel in the House," 6, 279.
• Pauper, visit from half-witted, 2, 167.
• Pawtucket Falls, the lock-keeper at, 1, 80; Dam, 88; Canal, deepening the, 263.
• Pea, beach, 4, 90, 206, 207.
• Peabody (a classmate of T.), 6, 24.
• Peabody, Miss Elizabeth Palmer, 6, 61, 287.
• Peace, lecture on, 6, 52; remarks on, 141, 249, 250.
• Peaked Mountain, 3, 254.
• Pear tree, the, planted by Thomas Prince, 4, 43.
• Peddler, T., taken for, 6, 245.
• Peetweets, Indian word for, 3, 182.
• Pehlvi, dialect, 6, 54.
• Pekin, 6, 89.
• Peleus and Cadmus, translation, 5, 381
• Pelham (N. H.), 1, 92.
• Pellico, Silvio, 6, 53.
• Pembroke (N. H.), 1, 124.
• Pemigewasset, the, 1, 85, 86, 88, 333; Basin, on the, 261.
• Penacook, now Concord (N. H.), founding of, 1, 322.
• Penance, people of Concord doing, 2, 4.
• Pencil-making, 6, 6, 174, 182, note, 335, note.
• Penhallow, Samuel, History, quoted, 4, 235.
• Penichook Brook, 1, 179, 202, 374.
• Penna, how pronounced, 6, 25.
• Pennsylvania, 6, 96, 276, 281.
• Pennyroyal, 1, 272.
• Penobscot County, 3, 73.
• Penobscot Indians, living in cotton tents, 2, 31; sociability of, 3, 321; use of muskrat-skins by, 5, 116, 117.
• Penobscot River, the, 3, 3, 5, 6; Indian islands in the, 7; 17, 18, 24, 29, 31, 32, 40, 41, 54, 77, 80, 87, 91, 95, 96, 103-105, 107, 108; between Moosehead and Chesuncook Lakes, described, 117; 145, 148; meaning of the word, 157, 158, 161 166, 176, 193, 202; West Branch of, 203, 208, 209, 233, 234, 238, 270-272; main boom of the, 329.
• Pepin Lake.
• Perch, the common, 1, 26; 5, 123; 6, 134, 311, 322, 325, 336.
• Perfection, artist of Kouroo who strove after, 2, 359.
• Persius Flaccus, Aulus, 1, 327-333; 6, 6, 158.
• Petrel, the storm, 4, 114.
• Pfeiffer, Mme. Ida, quoted, 2, 25.
• Phar-ra-oh (noise of locusts), 6, 90.
• Phenomenal and real, 6, 57, 58, 88, 89, 146, 321, 347, 348.
• Philanthropy, generally considered, 2, 82-86; 6, 118, 192, 212, 283, 346.
• Phillips, Wendell, before the Concord Lyceum, 4, 311; qualities of, as reformer and orator, 311-315; 6, 255, 397.
• Philosopher, what he is and is not, 2, 16; visits from a, 295-298.
• Philosophers, ancient, poor in outward, rich in inward riches, 2, 15, 16; 6, 11, 26, 52, 64, 65, 153, 299, 300.
• "Philosopher's Scales," 6, 115.
• Philosophy, Asiatic, 1, 140, 141; loftiness of the Oriental, 142, 143; Stoical, 6, x; mental, 6, 25-27; Transcendental, 81, 159; 114, 270, 296, 299, 300.
• Phœbe, the, 5, 112.
• Phœbus Apollo, 6, 44.
• Phosphorescence, 6, 309, 310.
• Phosphorescent wood, 3, 199-201.
• Physician, priest and, 1, 272.
• Pickerel, the, 1, 29; Walden, 2, 204, 205, 314; 6, 126-128, 131.
• Pickerel-fisher, the, 5, 180, 181.
• Pickerel-weed (pontederia), 1, 18.
• Picturesque, 6, 239, 264.
• Pierce, President Franklin, 6, 193, 211, 250.
• Pies, no, in Quebec, 5, 86.
• Piety, 6, 37, 42, 89.
• Pigeons, 1, 235; 6, 21.
• Pilgrims, arrival of the, 4, 251-257.
• Pilgrims, verse, 5, 413.
• Pilgrims, Canterbury, 6, 383.
• Pilgrim's Progress, the best sermon, 1, 72; 6, 377.
• Pillsbury, Parker, 6, 378-380.
• Pinbéna, the, 5, 48.
• Pindar, quoted, 1, 259; 6, 102.
• Pindar, Translations from, 5, 375.
• Pine, felling a, 2, 47; oak succeeding, and vice versa, 5, 185, 187, 189; family a, 243, 244.
• Pine, pitch, tracts of, 4, 22.
• Pine, white, 3, 160; forests, 169; red, 268; Labrador and red, 296.
• Pine cone, stripped by squirrels, 5, 196.
• Pine Stream, 3, 122, 136, 216.
• Pine Stream Deadwater, 3, 121.
• Pine Stream Falls, 3, 136, 216.
• Pinnacle, Hooksett, 1, 318, 321.
• Pioneers, old and new, 1, 124.
• Piracy, 6, 154.
• Piscataqua, the, 1, 202.
• Piscataquis Falls, 3, 322.
• Piscataquis River, the, 3, 101; meaning of the word, 157, 179, 260, 327.
• Piscataquoag, 1, 87, 259.
• Pismire, and his hillock, 6, 218.
• Pitching a canoe, 3, 105.
• Plain and mountain, life of the, 5, 151.
• Plains of Nauset, The, 4, 31-56.
• Plaistow (N. H.), 1, 185.
• Plants, the nobler valued for their fruit in air and light, 2, 17; abundance of strange, by Moosehead Lake, 3, 103, 104, 188; observed on Mount Kineo, 195; about camp on the Caucomgomoc, 223; along the Umbazookskus, 229, 230; in cedar swamp by Chamberlain Lake, 239-241; on East Branch, 302; on Cape Cod beach, 4, 111; about Highland Light, 135, 167; about the Clay Pounds, 165; on Cape Diamond, Quebec, 5, 27.
• Plato, 2, 119; definition of a man, 165; 6, 150.
• Plea for John Brown, A, 4, 409-440.
• Pleasant Cove, in Cohasset, 4, 18.
• Pleasant Meadow, adjunct to Baker Farm, 2, 225.
• Plicipennes, 5, 170.
• Pliny, the Elder, quoted, 5, 292.
• Plover, the piping of, 4, 71; the, 5, 112.
• Plum, beach, 5, 201.
• Plum Island, 1, 86, 88, 210.
• Plutarch, quoted, 1, 183.
• "Ply the oars! away! away!" verse, 1, 1, 88.
• Plymouth (Mass.), 6, 35, 42, 190, 192, 232-234, 238, 301, note, 328, 380.
• Plymouth (N. H.), 1, 89.
• Plymouth Church, 6, 297.
• Pockwockomus Falls, 3, 56, 57, 83.
• Pockwockomus Lake, 3, 50.
• Poems, 5, 393-419.
• Poet, poems and the, 1, 362-366; 400-403; visits from a, 2, 295.
• Poetry, the nature of, 1, 93-98; the mysticism of mankind, 350; of the "Dial," 6, 38, 60, 115, 124; Greek, 60; English, 65, 66, 112-114, 153, 235, 259, 275.
• Poets, never yet read by mankind, 2, 115, 116; 6, xi, 27, 93.
• Poet's Delay, The, verse, 1, 366.
• Point Allerton, 4, 15.
• Point Levi, by ferry to, 5, 70; a night at, 71; 89.
• Pointe aux Trembles, 5, 20, 21.
• Poke, or garget, the, 5, 253-255.
• Poke-logan, a, 3, 56.
• Polaris, 6, 362.
• Pole, stirring up with, 6, 311.
• Poling a batteau, 3, 34, 35, 53, 54.
• Polis, Joe, 3, 174; secured as guide, 175; puzzled about white men's law, 192; travels and opinions of, 217, 218; calls upon Daniel Webster, 279; as a boy, hard experience in traveling of, 308; good-by to, 327; 6, 290, 311, 323, 336.
• Politics, the unimportance of, 4, 480-482; 6, 17, 18, 141, 283, 359.
• Political conditions and news, 1, 133.
• Politicians, country, 3, 9.
• Poluphloisboios Thalassa, the Rev., 4, 67.
• Polygamy, 6, 302.
• Polygonum, 1, 18.
• Pommettes, 5, 39.
• Pomotis, 6, 131.
• Pond in Winter, The, 2, 312-329.
• Pond Village, 4, 142.
• Ponds The, 2, 192-222.
• Ponds, in Wellfleet, 4, 89. See Flint's, Goose, Loring's, Walden, White's Ponds.
• Pongoquahem Lake, 3, 260.
• Ponkawtasset, 1, 16.
• Poor, houses of the, 2, 37, 38.
• "Poor bird! destined to lead thy life," verse, 5, 411.
• Poplar Hill, 1, 16, 51.
• Portage, a rough, 3, 33; round Ambejijis Falls, 51.
• Post-office, easily dispensed with, 2, 104; the domestic, 4, 24.
• Postel, Charte Géographíque, quoted, 4, 249.
• Potherie, quoted, 5, 52.
• Pot-holes, various, 1, 261-263.
• Pout, the horned, 1, 29, 30; 6, 127, 128.
• Poverty, 6, 170, 171, 303.
• Poverty, verse, 5, 412.
• Poverty-grass, 4, 25; as the Barnstable coat-of-arms, 135.
• Practicalness, the triviality of, 1, 145.
• Prairie River, Musketaquid or, 5, 115.
• Prayer, verse, 5, 418.
• Preaching, 6, 192, 213.
• Precipice for suicides, 6, 149.
• Preëxistence, 6, 179, 185, 186; recollections of, 210, 211.
• Present, moment, meeting of two eternities, past and future, 2, 18.
• "Present, The" (the periodical), 6, 112, 117, 118.
• Press, influence and servility of the, 4, 397-400.
• Priest, physician and, 1, 272.
• Prince, Thomas, 4, 43.
• Prince of Wales in New England, 6, 372.
• Pring, Martin, New England discoveries of, 4, 228, 229, 246, 247.
• Prison, a, the true place for just men, 4, 370; T. in Concord, 374-380.
• Professor, the traveling (Agassiz), 6, 147.
• Prometheus Bound of Æschylus, The, translation, 5, 337.
• Prose, a poem in, 1, 404.
• Province man, a green, 3, 16.
• Provincetown, 4, 212-273.
• Provincetown (Mass.), walking to, 4, 31, 57, 58; Bank, T. suspected of robbing, 176, 177; approach to, 193; described, 195-197; fish, 212-215; boys, 218; Harbor, 225.
• Provinciality, American and English, 4, 477, 478.
• Public opinion, compared with private, 2, 8.
• Pumpkin, sitting alone on a, 2, 41; none so poor that he need sit on a, 72.
• Purana, the, quoted, 5, 327.
• Purple Grasses, The, 5, 252-258.
• Purple Sea, the, 4, 119.
• Purslane, dinner of, 2, 68.
• Pythagoras, quoted, 1, 338.
• Quail, a white, 5, 109, note.
• Quakers, dress of, 6, 97; meetings, 98, 288, 340; at Eagleswood, 288; at New Bedford, 340, 393; at New York, 97.
• Quakish Lake, 3, 33, 36, 85.
• Quarles, Francis, quoted, 1, 12, 407, 414; 6, 108, 112.
• Quarterly of the Transcendentalists, 6, 120; its fame in England, 156, note.
• Quebec (Que.), meaning of the word, 3, 157; 257; 5, 3, 20, 21; approach to, 22; harbor and population of, 22; mediævalism of, 23, 26; the citadel, 27-30; 76-80; fine view of, 49; reëntering, through St. John's Gate, 69; lights in the Lower Town, 71; landing again at, 72; walk round the Upper Town, 72-76; the walls and gates, 74, 75; artillery barracks, 75; mounted guns, 76; restaurants, 85, 86; scenery of, 87-89; origin of word, 88; departure from, 95.
• Questioning to be avoided, 6, 201, 275.
• Quincy, Josiah (H. U. 1790), President of Harvard University, 6, 10.
• Quitticus in Middleborough, 6, 264.
• Quoil, Hugh, an Irishman, 2, 288.
• Rabbit, the, 2, 310.
• Rabbit Island, 1, 113.
• Race characteristics, 6, 149, 222, 229.
• Race Point, 4, 64, 193, 200.
• Ragmuff Stream, 3, 118, 121, 145, 216.
• Railroad, car, growing luxuries in, 2, 41; slowness and heedlessness of, 58, 59; men overridden by, 102, 103; listening with praise to sound of, 127-136; Iron, Trojan Horse ruining Walden, 213, 214.
• Rain, enjoyment of, 2, 147; 3, 33, 265, 266.
• Rainbow, standing in light of, 2, 224; in the Falls of the Chaudière, 5, 70, 71.
• Raleigh, Sir Walter, as a master of style, 1, 106; quoted, 2, 6; "The Soul's Errand" attributed to, 4, 452; quoted, 5, 329.
• Rapids, shooting, 3, 81.
• Rasles, Father, Dictionary of the Abenaki Language, 3, 154.
• Reading, 2, 110-122.
• Reading, 6, 28, 31, 65, 66, 112-114, 153, 300, 301, 379, 382.
• Read's Ferry, 1, 245.
• Reality, finding, 2, 108, 109.
• Realometer, not Nilometer, but a, 2, 109.
• Recluse, habits of a, 6, 18, 36, 37, 59, note, 79, 122, 159, 170, 195, 238, 252, note, 266, 328.
• Red shirts, 3, 31, 145.
• Reformers, 1, 130; objection to, 118.
• Reforms in mechanics and ethics, 4, 281-286.
• Religion, ligature and, 1, 64, 79; 6, 9, 10, 89, 99, 114, 159, 164, 179, 191, 195, 213, 214, 243, 297, 393.
• Rent, annual tax that would buy a village of wigwams, 2, 33.
• Repaired road, a, 3, 98.
• Reporter, with labor for pains, 2, 19.
• Reports on the natural history of Massachusetts, 5, 103, 114, 118, 123, 129, 130.
• Resignation, confirmed desperation, 2, 8.
• Respectability, 6, 79.
• Restigouche River, the, 3, 178; 6, 324.
• Return of Spring, verse, 5, 109.
• Review, Democratic, 6, 51, note, 100, 102, 108, 118; Massachusetts Quarterly, 6, 144, 156.
• Review, of Carlyle by Emerson, 6, 94, 101; of Emerson in Revue des Deux Mondes, 157.
• Rhexia, 1, 18; 5, 252.
• Rice, story of the mountaineer, 1, 212-220.
• Richardson, Rev. James (H. U. 1837), 6, 10.
• Richelieu, Isles of, 5, 96.
• Richelieu or St. John's River, 5, 8.
• Richelieu Rapids, the, 5, 21.
• Richter, Jean Paul, quoted, 5, 330, 331.
• Ricketson, Daniel, described, 6, 235, 239, 305; letters from, 237, 246, 257; letters to, 239, 240, 246, 248, 261, 266, 270, 273, 284, 285, 304, 305, 311, 313, 337, 341, 350, 368, 374, 376, 393, 396, 397; mentioned, 237, 245, 257, 261, 265, 308, 342, 359, 381; visited by T., 265; plans trip abroad, 333; conversion of, 393.
• Ricketson, Walton, sculptor, 6, xiii, 263, 394.
• Ripley, Rev. Ezra, D. D. (H. U. 1776), 6, 4.
• Ripley, George, 6, 404.
• Ripogenus Portage, 3, 80.
• River, the flow of a, 5, 178.
• River-bank, ice formations, in a, 5, 128, 129.
• River Wolf, Fresh-Water or, 1, 29.
• Rivers, of history, the famous, 1, 10.
• Rivière du Loup, 6, 323.
• Rivière du Sud, the, 5, 92.
• Rivière more meandering than River, 5, 56.
• Roach. See Chivin.
• Roaches, silvery, 3, 59.
• Road, a supply, 3, 212; recipe for making a, 244.
• Roberval, Sieur de, 5, 95, 96.
• Robin, the evening, 2, 344; 5, 109; a white, 109, note.
• Robin Hood Ballads, quoted, 1, 121, 174, 175; 5, 150, 207.
• Rock-Ebeeme, 3, 20.
• Rock hills, singular, 3, 282.
• Rogers, Nathaniel P., editor of "Herald of Freedom," 4, 306-308; quoted, 308-310.
• Romans, vestiges of the, 1, 264.
• Room for thoughts, 2, 156.
• Roots of spruce, as thread, 3, 225, 226.
• Ross, Sir James Clark, quoted, 1, 390.
• Rowlandson, Mrs., 5, 149.
• Roxbury, Mass., mentioned, 6, 22, 24.
• Ruff, the, 1, 24-26.
• Rumors from an Æolian Harp, verse, 1, 184.
• Runaway slave, 2, 168, 169.
• Rural life, 6, 38, 67, 93, 115, 116, 121, 135.
• Russell, E. H., 6, 403.
• Russell Stream, 3, 104.
• "Rut," the, a sound before a change of wind, 4, 97, 98.
• Rynders, 6, 122.
• Sabbatia chloroides, 6, 264.
• Sabbath-keeping, 6, 99, 195, 336.
• Sachem Tahatawan, 6, 13, 18.
• Saddle-back Mountain, 1, 189.
• Sadi of Shiraz, Sheik, quoted, 2, 87.
• Sadness, 6, 41, 43, 47, 75, 89, 397.
• Saguenay River, 5, 91, 94.
• St. Anne, the Falls of, 5, 40; Church of La Bonne, 49; lodgings in village of, 49-51; interior of the church of La Bonne, 51, 52; Falls of, described, 52-55.
• St. Ann's of Concord voyageurs, Ball's Hill, the, 1, 19.
• St. Charles River, the, 5, 30.
• St. Francis Indian, 3, 146, 208.
• St. George's Bank, 4, 123, 124.
• St. Helen's Island (Montreal), 5, 11.
• St. John, the wrecked brig, 4, 6.
• St. John River, the, 3, 5, 40, 80, 101, 137, 176, 178, 203, 233, 238, 251, 256, 257, 270, 271, 274.
• St. John's (Que.), 5, 9, 10.
• St. John's River, 5, 8.
• St. Lawrence River, 3, 80, 233, 238; 5, 11; cottages along the, 21; banks of the, above Quebec, 40, 41; breadth of, 49; or Great River, 89-95; old maps of, 89, 90, 92; compared with other rivers, 90, 92-95; 6, 323.
• St. Maurice River, 5, 94.
• Saint Vitus' dance, 2, 103.
• Salmon, 1, 32.
• Salmon Brook, 1, 167, 168, 375; Lovewell's house on, 345.
• "Salmon Brook," verse, 1, 375.
• Salmon River, 3, 19.
• Salop (Shropshire), 6, 249, 383.
• Salt, as manufactured by Captain John Sears, 4, 27, 28; works, 218, 219.
• Salutations, Canadian, 5, 47.
• "Sam," a cat, 6, 29, 31.
• Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (H. U. 1855), letters to, 6, 58, 59, note, 252, 385-392; his Life of Thoreau, 22, 61, 90, 154, note, 252; his Memoir of Alcott cited, 61, note, 237, note, 252, note, 345; mentioned, 252, 287, 364, 365, 377, 381, 400; his school, 253, 322; his version of T.'s Latin, 29-32.
• Sand, tract of, near Nashua, 1, 152, 209, 210; blowing, 4, 204; inroads of the, 204, 205; Provincetown, 220-223.
• Sandbar Island, 3, 100, 188, 189.
• Sand cherry, tasted out of compliment to Nature, 2, 126.
• Sand formations due to thaw, 2, 336-340.
• Sandwich (Mass.), 4, 19; described, 20-22.
• Sandwich (N. H.), 1, 86.
• Sandy Hook, 6, 70, 72, 83.
• Sanjay, quoted, 1, 147.
• Sanscrit books, 6, 270, 271, note, 300.
• Sap of sugar maple, 6, 278, 279.
• Sarah, Aunt (Dunbar), 6, 5.
• Sardanapalus, at best houses traveler considered a, 2, 40.
• Sargent, John Turner (H. U. 1827), 6, 190.
• Satire, poetry and, 1, 328-330.
• Saturday, 1, 12-40.
• Saturn, 6, 133.
• Sault à la Puce, Rivière du, 5, 48, 58.
• Sault Norman, 5, 11.
• Sault St. Louis, 5, 11.
• Saunter, derivation of the word, 5, 205, 206.
• Savage, instinct, the, 1, 55; his advantage over civilized men, 2, 35; life, instinct towards, 231.
• Scarecrow taken for man whose clothes it wears, 2, 24.
• Scarlet Oak, The, 5, 278-285.
• Scene-shifter, the, 1, 118.
• Scholars, their complaints, 6, 171, 211, 229, 230, 259; their duties, 98, 171; their qualities, 98, 103, 145, 175, 262, 280.
• Schoodic Lake, 3, 256.
• School, the uncommon, 2, 122; question, the, among Indians, 3, 323, 324.
• Schoolhouse, a Canadian, 5, 46.
• Schooner, origin of word, 4, 199.
• Science, 1, 386-391; the bravery of, 5, 106, 107; 6, 193, 280.
• Scotchman, dissatisfied with Canada, a, 5, 75.
• Scott, Sir Walter, 6, 114.
• Scriptures, of the world, 1, 150; Hebrew, inadequacy of, regarding winter, 5, 183.
• "Sea and land are but his neighbors," verse, 1, 279.
• Sea and the Desert, The, 4, 176-211.
• Sea, the roar of the, 4, 40, 66; remoteness of the bottom of the, 123; and land, 6, xi, 14, 69, 79, 83, 183, 184, 254-256, 301.
• Sea-fleas, 4, 113.
• Sea-plants near Quebec, 5, 93.
• Sears, Captain John, and salt manufacture, 4, 27, 28.
• Seashore, verses, 6, xi; walks, 312, 328, 457.
• Sebago Lake, 6, 38.
• Seboois Lakes, 3, 222, 261, 310.
• Second Lake, 3, 274, 276, 281; beauty of, 290-292, 297.
• Seeds, the use of, 1, 129; of virtues, not beans, 2, 181; the transportation of, by wind, 5, 186, 187; by birds, 187-189; by squirrels, 190-200; the vitality of, 200-203.
• Seeing, individual, 5, 285-288.
• Seeming and being, 6, 44, 88, 161, 214, 217, 218, 227, 228, 321.
• Selenites, 5, 323.
• Sensuality, in eating and other appetites, 2, 241-246; 6, 204, 216, 295.
• Serenade, like the music of the cow, 2, 137.
• Serenity and cheerfulness, 6, 40, 41, 97, 278, 396.
• Service, The, Qualities of the Recruit, 4, 277-279.
• Seven against Thebes, 6, 102.
• Sewing, work you may call endless, 2, 25; circle in Concord, 6, 29, 32.
• Sex and marriage, 6, 198-200, 204, 207.
• Shackford, Rev. Charles Chauncy, (H. U. 1835), 6, 190.
• Shad, 1, 32, 35, 36; train-band nicknamed the, 33.
• Shad-flies, ephemeræ or, 3, 255.
• Shad Pond, or Noliseemack, 3, 29, 30, 86.
• Shadows, 1, 375. See Moonlight.
• Shakers, 6, 114, 204.
• Shakespeare, 6, x, 44, 197.
• Shame, 6, 166, 197, 198, 208, 295.
• Shank-Painter Swamp, 4, 200, 217.
• Shanty, purchase of Collins's, 2, 47, 48.
• Sharks, 4, 112, 113.
• Shawmut (Boston), 6, 16.
• Sheep, alarm of a flock of, 1, 317.
• Shelburne Falls, 1, 261.
• Sheldrakes, Indian word for, 3, 182; 254, 274, 276.
• Shellfish on Cape Cod, beach, 4, 110, 111.
• Shelter, a necessary of life, 2, 13; how it became a necessary, 29, 30; generally considered, 29-45.
• Sherman's Bridge, 1, 4.
• Shiners, 1, 28; 6, 127-131.
• Shingles of thought, whittling, 2, 297.
• Shipwreck, The, 4, 3-18.
• Shirts, our liber, or true bark, 2, 26.
• Short's Falls, 1, 257.
• Sign language, 5, 61.
• Signals, old clothes as, 4, 22.
• Silence, 1, 417-420; and speech, 6, 54, 156, 230; of the woods, 353.
• Sillery (Que.), 5, 22.
• Silliman, Benjamin, quoted, 5, 98.
• Simpkins, the Rev. John, quoted, 4, 30.
• Simplicity of life, 2, 101, 102; 6, 161, 212, 213, 299.
• Sims case, the, 4, 390, 391.
• "Since that first 'Away! Away!'" verse, 1, 200.
• Singing, 3, 41, 42.
• Skating, 5, 177, 178; 6, 250, 349.
• Sincerity, a rare virtue, 6, 259.
• Skies, the, 1, 383.
• Skins, sale of, 2, 308.
• Slavery, Massachusetts and, 4, 362, 363; what it is, 394; how to deal with, 433, 434; 6, 97, 283, 358-360, 366, 392.
• Slavery in Massachusetts, 4, 388-408.
• Sleepers, railroad, 2, 102, 103.
• Sloth, 6, 205, 222, 243; the animal, 345.
• Small, James, of Truro, 6, 255.
• Smith, Ansell, clearing and settlement of, 3, 137-145.
• Smith, Captain John, quoted, 1, 91, 92; 4, 180, 255; map of New England by, 229.
• Smith, Captain, 6, 86.
• Smith's River, 1, 87.
• Smoke, winter morning, 5, 165; seen from a hilltop, 173, 174.
• Smoothness of ocean, 4, 125.
• Snake, under water in torpid state, 2, 45, 46; the, 5, 123, 124.
• Snake-head, 1, 18.
• Snipe-shooting grounds, 5, 48.
• Snow, walking in the, 2, 292; 5, 181, 182; not recognized in Hebrew Scriptures, 183; -storm, 6, 27, 29, 377, 378.
• Snow, the Great, 2, 132, 142, 292; dating from, 280.
• Snowberry, creeping, used as tea, 3, 227.
• Snowbird, the, 5, 109.
• Snow's Hollow, 4, 61.
• Soapwort gentian, the, 1, 18.
• Society, commonly too cheap, 2, 151; health not to be found in, 5, 105; lecture on, 6, 6, 158, 164, 229, 230, 281, 313, 346; pretences of, 213, 274.
• Society Islanders, gods of, 1, 55, 66.
• Society of Natural History, 6, 188, 189.
• Soldier, a young, 1, 334.
• Soldiers, English, in Canada, 5, 9, 10, 16, 17; in Quebec, 24-27, 79, 80.
• Solitude, 2, 143-154.
• Solitude, 6, 76, 83, 174, 175, 231, 319.
• Solomon, quoted, 5, 291.
• "Some tumultuous little rill," verse, 1, 62.
• Somebody & Co., 3, 14.
• Somerset, British ship of war, wrecked on Clay Pounds, 4, 162.
• "Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion," verse, 5, 112.
• Sophocles, the Antigone of, quoted, 1, 139.
• Sorel River, 5, 8.
• Sorrow, doctrine of, 6, 41, 167.
• Soucook, 1, 87.
• Souhegan, 1, 87, 357; or Crooked River, 231.
• Soul, and body, 6, 164, 165, 174, 175, 180, 193, 194, 213, 214, 219; nurture of, 164, 165, 174, 175.
• Sounds, 2, 123-142.
• Sounds, winter morning, 5, 163, 164.
• Souneunk Mountains, the, 3, 218, 260.
• South, laborers a staple production of the, 2, 39.
• South Adams (Mass.), 1, 192.
• South Twin Lake, 3, 39.
• Southborough (Mass.), 1, 3, 5.
• Sowadnehunk Deadwater, 3, 58.
• Sowadnehunk River, the, 3, 31, 79.
• Spain, specimen news from, 2, 105.
• Spanish discoverers, 4, 234, 235.
• Sparrow, the first, of spring, 2, 342.
• Sparrow, the rush, 6, 23.
• Sparrow, the song, 5, 109; 6, 14.
• Sparrow, the white-throated, 3, 213, 249, 262.
• Spaulding's farm, 5, 243.
• Spearing fish, 5, 121-123.
• Spectator, the part of man which is, 2, 149, 150.
• Speech, country, 5, 137.
• Spencer Bay Mountain, 3, 183.
• Spencer Mountains, 3, 108.
• Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 1, 356; 2, 158.
• Spirit, motions of the, 6, 97, 288; the Great, 14, 17, 177; Bad, of the Indians, 15.
• "Spokelogan," 3, 268.
• Sportsmen, making boys, 2, 234.
• Spring, 2, 330-351.
• Spring, coming of the, 2, 333, 334; morning, moral effect of a, 346, 347; on the Concord River, 5, 119-121; signs of, 6, 21, 28, 30, 71, 306, 376.
• Spring, Marcus, 6, 183, 283, 286-289.
• Springer, J. S., Forest Life, quoted, 3, 21, note; on lumbering, quoted, 48, note; on the spruce tree, quoted, 75; about the digging of a canal, quoted, 270, 271.
• Springs, river-feeding, 1, 203; cool, 3, 280.
• Spruce, the, 3, 104; Indian words for black and white, 209; difference between black and white, 225.
• Spruce beer, a draught of, 3, 30.
• Squam (N. H.), 1, 86, 87, 89.
• Squash, the large yellow, 5, 203.
• Squaw Mountain, 3, 183.
• Squire Make-a-stir, 2, 8.
• Squirrel, red, 1, 206; watching, 2, 301-303; in spring, coming of, 342; 3, 241; burying nuts, 5, 190, 191; with nuts under snow, 195; pine cones stripped by the, 196.
• Squirrel, striped, chipping, or ground, 1, 205, 206; with filled cheek-pouches, 5, 198.
• Staff, the artist's, which became the fairest creation of Brahma, 2, 359.
• Stage-Coach Views, 4, 19-30.
• Staples, Samuel, constable and sheriff, 6, 50, 52, 141.
• Stark, General John, 1, 268.
• Stars, known to Indian, 3, 247; 5, 328, 329.
• State and Church, 6, 52, 224, 225.
• Staten Island, view from, 1, 190; looking at ships from, 253; 6, 6, 50, 65, 68, 71-73, 77, 83, 86, 95, 100, 116, 120, 121.
• Statistics. See Cost.
• Sternothærus, 6, 126, 131.
• Stillriver Village (Mass.), 5, 151.
• Stillwater (Me.), 3, 4, 167.
• Stillwater, the, 5, 140, 142.
• Stoicism, 6, x, 47, 48, 123, 132, 170, 171, 238, 239, 337.
• Stone, nations' pride in hammered, 2, 63.
• Stone, the Rev. Nathan, 4, 55.
• Stones, rarity of, on Cape Cod, 4, 223-225.
• Storm, in New York, 6, 105; on Monadnock, 370.
• Stove, disadvantages of cooking, 2, 280, 281.
• Stow (Mass.), 5, 136.
• Stratten, now the Almshouse Farm, 2, 283; family, homestead of, 284.
• Students, poor, Walden addressed to, 2, 4; their economy, 6, 58, 59, note; of Greek, 58, 102, 103; of law, 17, 106.
• Sturgeon River, Merrimack or, 1, 85, 117.
• Style, literary, 4, 325, 326, 330, 331; a man's, in writing, 6, x, 67, 94, 311, 312.
• Success in life, 6, 70, 79, 85, 96, 109, 123, 124, 159, 164, 173, 178, 216, 294, 318, 362.
• Succession of Forest Trees, The, 5, 184-204.
• "Such near aspects had we," verse, 1, 253.
• "Such water do the gods distil," verse, 1, 86.
• Suckers, common and horned, 1, 30; 6, 127, 130-132, 221.
• Sudbury (Mass.), 1, 3, 4, 5, 36, 53; early church of, described by Johnson, 9; 2, 97, 335; 5, 303.
• Sudbury River, 1, 4.
• Suet, in Dennis (Mass.), 4, 27.
• Sugar, 6, 278, 279.
• Sugar Island, 3, 101, 183, 194; near Olamon River, 324.
• Sugar Maple, The, 5, 271-278.
• Sumach growing by T.'s house, 2, 126.
• Summer life, 6, 23, 63, 93.
• Sumner, Charles, (H. U. 1830), 6, 183.
• Sumner, Horace, lost at sea, 6, 184.
• Sun, in a mud-puddle, 6, 242.
• Suncook, 1, 87.
• Sunday, 1, 42-120.
• Sunday, the keeping of, 1, 63, 64, 76, 77; an Indian's, 3, 201, 202, 214, 215, 223, 229; in Provincetown, 4, 252, 253; discourses, 6, 79, 97, 190, 233, 289, 291, 297.
• Sun-fish, bream, or ruff, the fresh-water, 1, 24-26.
• Sunkhaze, the, 3, 8, 325, 326.
• Sunrise on Hoosac Mountain, 1, 198. See Morning.
• Sunset, 1, 416-418; a remarkable, 5, 246-248.
• Sunshine, the power of, 4, 290, 291.
• Sun-squall, sea-jellies called, 4, 70.
• Survey of Walden Pond, 2, 315-324.
• Surveying, 6, 100, 209, 220, 234, 289, 291, 328, note, 333.
• Surveyor of forest paths and across-lot routes, 2, 20.
• Suttle, Mr., of Virginia, 4, 392.
• Sutton (Mass.), 2, 292.
• Swamp, the luxury of standing in a, 1, 319.
• "Swampers," 3, 242.
• Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1, 68; 6, 300.
• "Sweet cakes," 3, 12.
• Table-lands of Eastham, 4, 62.
• Tacitus, translation by T. from, 4, 452-454.
• "Tactics" of Scott, 6, 356.
• Tahatawan, 6, 13-18.
• Talking, 6, 54, 106, 175, 176, 230, 255, 301.
• Tamias, the steward squirrel, 5, 198.
• Tansy, 1, 18.
• Tappan, William, of New York, 6, 72, 73, 79, 81, 82, 95, 97, 101, 113, 117, 122.
• Tarbell, Deacon, 6, 244.
• Tarkiln Hill, New Bedford, 6, 262, 305.
• Taunton, 6, 13, 17-19.
• Tavern, the gods' interest in the, 5, 153; compared with the church, the, 161, 162.
• Taxes, T.'s experience with, 4, 369, 370; in jail for refusal to pay, 374-381.
• Taxpaying, 6, 50, 52.
• Taylor, Jane, 6, 115.
• Tching-thang, quoted, 2, 98.
• Tea, varieties of forest, 3, 227; hemlock, its value, 6, 326.
• Teaching, 6, 6, 10, 23-27, 83.
• Teats, 6, 223.
• Telasinis Lake, 3, 267.
• Telos Lake, 3, 235, 245, 264, 267; Indian name for, 270, 274, 281, 290, 299.
• Temperature, of pond water in spring, 2, 330.
• Temple, defined, 6, 195; too close, 191.
• Tent, description of, 3, 196, 197.
• Tenures, Canadian, 5, 63.
• Tests, our lives tried by a thousand simple, 2, 11.
• "Thank God, who seasons thus the year," verse, 5, 407.
• Thanksgivings, cattle-shows and so-called, 2, 183; emotion of, 6, 294; the festival, 282, 346.
• "That Phaeton of our day," 1, 103.
• Thaw, sand formations due to, 2, 336; Thor and, 341.
• Thaw, The, verse, 5, 409.
• "The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray," verse, 5, 406.
• "The god of day his car rolls up the slopes," verse, 5, 399.
• "The Good how can we trust?" verse, 1, 298; 6, 177.
• "The needles of the pine," verse, 5, 133.
• "The rabbit leaps," verse, 5, 410.
• "The respectable folks," verse, 1, 7.
• "The river swelleth more and more," verse, 5, 120.
• "The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell," verse, 5, 165.
• "The smothered streams of love, which flow," verse, 1, 278.
• "The waves slowly beat," verse, 1, 229.
• "The western wind came lumbering in," verse, 1, 180.
• "Then idle Time ran gadding by," verse, 1, 181.
• "Then spend an age in whetting thy desire," verse, 1, 111.
• Theophrastus, 5, 292.
• "There is a vale which none hath seen," verse, 1, 184.
• "Therefore a torrent of sadness deep," verse, 1, 183.
• "They," an authority impersonal as the Fates, 2, 27.
• Thieving, practiced only where property is unevenly divided, 2, 191.
• Thinking, 6, 139, 162, 356, 357.
• "This is my Carnac, whose unmeasured dome," verse, 1, 267.
• Thistle, the Canada, 3, 96.
• Thomson, James, quoted, 5, 249.
• Thor and Thaw, 2, 341.
• Thoreau, Cynthia (Dunbar), mother of Henry, 6, 4, 11, 29, 68, 193, 225, 236, 251, 253, 289, 350, 351, 363, 364, 365, 381, 400, 405. See under Letters.
• Thoreau, Helen, sister of Henry, 6, 4, 11, 21, 23, 29, 32, 49, 52, 73, 74, 86, 92, 95, 98, 100, 111, 117. See under Letters.
• Thoreau, Henry David, starts on Concord and Merrimack journey, 1, 12; ascent of Hoosac Mountain, 189-200; experience with an uncivil mountain man, 214-220; invited to do various sorts of work, 324; begins return voyage, 335; goes to live by Walden Pond, 2, 3; prefers to talk in the first person singular, 3, 4; beginning in the woods, 45; purchase of Collins's shanty, 47; begins to occupy house, 49; plants beans, 60; earnings and spendings, 65-67; making bread, 68; declines offer of a mat, 74; imaginary purchase of Hollowell farm, 92; situation of house, 95, 126; purpose in going to woods, 100, 101; hoed beans, did not read books, 123; listening to various sounds, 127-142; friendship with Canadian woodchopper, 159-166; devotion to husbandry, 179; earnings and spendings on bean-field, 180, 181; put in jail for not paying taxes, 190; fishing in Walden Pond, 192-195; boiling chowder about 1824, 200; earliest days on Walden Pond, 212, 213; first begins to inhabit house in cold weather, 268; finishes house with plastering, 271; surveys Walden Pond, 315; leaves Walden, Sept. 6, 1847, 351; leaves Concord for Maine, Aug. 31, 1846, 3, 3; starts "up river" from Bangor, 4; strikes into the wilderness, 15; starts for summit of Ktaadn, 61, 62; begins descent, 72; leaves Boston by steamer for Bangor, Sept. 13, 1853, 93; takes Moosehead Lake steamer for return home, 159; starts on third excursion to Maine Woods, July 20, 1857, 174; reaches farthest northern point, 259; lands at Oldtown, the journey finished, 326; various visits to Cape Cod, 4, 3; starts for Cape Cod, Oct. 9, 1849, 5; goes on a mackerel cruise, 182; takes leave of Cape Cod, 257; experience with taxes, 368, 370; in jail for unpaid taxes, 374-381; leaves Concord for Canada, Sept. 25, 1850, 5, 3; traveling outfit of, 31-34; leaves Quebec for Montreal on return trip, 95; leaves Montreal for Boston, 99; total expense of Canada excursion 100, 101; walk from Concord to Wachusett and back, 133-152; observation of a red squirrel, 190, 191; experience with government squash seed, 203; his fame increasing, 6, vii, 398, 399; his character, ix, xii; industry of, ix, 11, 34, 170, 171, 289, 368, 369; his affection for his family, ix, 33, 34, 68, 98, 99, 118, 119; for his brother John, 35, 41, 74; for the Emersons, 50, 53, 93, 103, 135, 136, 142, 157; French elegance of, x; jesting habit of, x; birth and death, 3; ancestry and early days, 3-7; epochs in his life, 5, 6, 11, 12, note, 35, 50, 160; affairs of, 6, 7, 23, 34-38, 105, 107, 108, 126-132, 135, 169-172, 209, 355; books written by, 6, 7, 139, 156, 233, 238, 252, 272; college "part," 7-10; philosophic mind of, 11, 26; Emerson's view of, 11; exaggeration by, 11, 203, 220, 224; Indian dialect of, 13-18; tastes of, 18, 23, 33, 34, 36, 37, 44, 45, 47, 49, 58, 64, 79, 82, 93, 114, 115, 193; his Indian relics, 19, 20; wish to go West, 20; habits, 23, 24, 34, 135, 192, 326, 366-369; school, 23, 24; advises Helen, 25-31; a Transcendental brother, 32-34; acquaintance with Emerson, 34, 35, 48, 49; with Mrs. Brown, 35-42 (see Letters); with R. F. Fuller, 45 (see Letters); love of music, 41, 45, 46; writes to Emerson, 49 (see Letters); at Emerson's house, 35, 50; intimate with Hawthorne, 51; with Alcott, 52, 64, 136, 146, 151, 153, 238, 281, 291, 297, 307, 328, note; with Emerson's children, 54, 136, 150, 152, 153; with Mrs. Emerson, 53 (see Letters); with C. S. Wheeler, 58, 59, note; edits "Dial," 59-63; admirers of, 65, 138, 139, 158, 235, 238, 239, 298, 397, 398; his college life, 5, 7, 8, 10, 58, 67, 328; college professors and tutors, 58, 109, 137, 145; college studies, 65-67; goes to Staten Island, 68; meets Horace Greeley, Henry James, etc., 68; describes New York, 69-72, 78, 79, 82, etc.; verses on his brother John, 74; describes James, Channing, and Brisbane, 80, 81; and other friends, 82; at W. Emerson's, 85, 86; his pursuits, 84-91; criticises Concord and the "Dial," 92-94; describes immigration in 1843, 96, 109, 110; hears Lucretia Mott, 97; laments Stearns Wheeler, 97, 98; regrets Concord and separation, 99; writes for magazines, 100, 102, 107, 108, 109; mentions Channing, Greeley, James, Longfellow, 101; translates Greek, 102; sees publishers, 105; mentions Webster and C. Dunbar, 105; reads Quarles, 113; criticises Ellery Channing and Lane, 113, 114; Emerson too, 115; likes the Irish, 116; objection to W. H. Channing, 118; hears from Emerson, 120; and Ellery Channing, 121; lives by Walden, 122, 125; hears from Lane, 122-125; sends fish to Agassiz, 125-132; returns to Emerson's house, 132; writes to Sophia, 132 (see Letters); cares for the Emerson family, 135; helps Alcott with the summer-house of Emerson, 136; describes Scientific School, 138; refuses marriage, 138, 139; finds no publisher, 139, 156; his account of Hugh Whelan, 140, 143, 144, 148, 149; hears from Emerson, 142 (see Letters); hears Parker, Whipple, and Hudson at Lyceum, 145; describes a dinner, 147; sends verses, 147; describes the Emerson household, 152, 153; and W. E. Channing, 153; reads lectures, 6, 55, 154; writes to J. E. Cabot, 155 (see Letters); his mode of writing, 156; meets H. G. O. Blake, 158; their correspondence, 158-383 (see Letters); believed in simplicity, 161; defines his life, 163, 168, 174, 175, 178, 179, 186; lectures on bread, 164-166; on duties, 167; corresponds with Greeley, 169; fathoming character, 169; lives by hand-labor, 170, 171; writes for "Graham" and "Putnam," 169, 172; his debts, 219, note, 221; visits Fire Island, 183; elected to Boston Society of Natural History, 188; lectures in Boston, 190; in Plymouth, Salem, etc., 190-192; satirizes spiritism, 193, 194; will be a scarecrow, 195; his temples, 195, 196; essay on Chastity, 197-209; goes land-surveying, 209; on "doing good," 211; reflects on life, 212-215; differs with G. W. Curtis, 216; moralizes, 217-223; feebleness of, 217, 218, 275; reads Haydon and Layard, 224; gets a new coat, 225; lessons therefrom, 226-228; finds fault with men, 229; paddles up river by night, 230, 231; lectures in Worcester, 232, 233, 303, 349, 358; publishes "Walden," 233; meets Ricketson and T. Cholmondeley, 235; geniality of, 238, 239, 274, 301; visits Nantucket and New Bedford, 240, 245, 247; moralizes to Blake, 241-244; writes to Cholmondeley, 249; to Sanborn, 252, 385; prefers home to city, 248; visits Cape Cod, 254-257; incipient disease, 257; his boat, 258; describes Ricketson, 259; deals with E. Hosmer for an old house, 261, 262; praises Gilpin, 263; visits New Bedford, 265, 283; gathers driftwood, 267-269; meets Mary Emerson, 269; receives books from Cholmondeley, 270, 271; the greatest walker in Concord, 277; idealizes sugar-making, 278; visits Alcott in New Hampshire, 282, 283, 285; invited to teach, 285; fondness for home, 285; the Eagleswood community described, 287-289; meets Walt Whitman, 291; visits Greeley, 291; his morning in Worcester, 292, 293; describes Whitman, 295-297; hears H. W. Beecher, 297; quotes Confucius to Wiley, 299 (see Letters); lands on Clark's Island, 301, note; meets Alcott and Channing in New Bedford, 306, 307; goes to Cape Cod with Channing, 308; analyzes glow-worms for M. Watson, 309 (see Letters); praises Hillside, 328, 329; criticises W. Flagg, 311; in Maine woods, 312, 315, 322-326 (see Letter to Higginson); his camp outfit, 326, 327; habit in touring, 329, 330; visits White Mountains (in 1858), 330-336; goes to Monadnock, 333, 368; finds the arnica in Tuckerman's Ravine, 335; his camp on Mt. Washington, 335, 336; writes on autumn tints, 340; is visited by Cholmondeley in 1858-59, 342; ridicules Boston clubs, 344, 345; criticises H. James, 346; his parable of the mountain ravine, 347, 348; his father dies, 350; returns to hand-labor, 355, 356; praises John Brown, 358; his speech published, with Emerson's, by Redpath, 359; reflections on man and fate, 360-362; invited to John Brown's grave, 363; goes with Channing to Monadnock, 364; speeds Frank Merriam to Canada, 366, 367; explains his silence to Ricketson, 354; gets a Canada lynx, 355; describes life on Monadock, 371, 372; hints for the Prince of Wales, 372; is visited by Blake and Brown, 376; mentions Alcott's success, 377; writes to P. Pillsbury, 378; falls ill and goes to Minnesota, 373, 380-384, 385-391; his last letter from Cholmondeley, 380; describes his illness, 393; sits for his portrait in New Bedford, 394; writes for the "Atlantic Monthly," 395; grows worse, 396; writes his last letter, 399; dies, 400; expedition to Catskills and Berkshires, 406, 407; visited by Greene, 409; self-criticism, 410; lecturing irksome, 411; daguerreotype taken, 411.
• Thoreau, Jane (aunt), mentioned, 6, 120.
• Thoreau, John (father of Henry), 6, 4-7, 11, 21, 68, 73, 99, 111, 289, 342, 349; day-book of, 5; lines to, 87; described by Thoreau, 350; dies, 350, 351.
• Thoreau, John (grandfather of Henry), 6, 5, note, 323.
• Thoreau, John, brother, lines to, 1, 2, 12; brings Nathan, a country boy, to the boat, 308; 6, 4, 7, 13, 14, 17-24, 32, 35; his death, 41, 74, 75; his bluebird-box, 21, 22. See Letters.
• Thoreau, Maria, 6, 118.
• Thoreau, Philip (great-grandfather of Henry), 6, 5.
• Thoreau, Sophia (sister of Henry), 6, 4, 24, 25, 29, 31, 34, 71, 111, 119, 132, 193, 286, 363, 396, 398, 400; dies, 400. See Letters.
• Thor-finn, and Thor-eau, 4, 191, 192; voyage of, 247, 248.
• Thorhall, the disappointment of, 4, 187.
• Thorn-apple, the, 4, 14, 15.
• Thornton's Ferry, 1, 174, 227, 232.
• Thorwald, voyage of, 4, 247, 248.
• "Thou dusky spirit of the wood," verse, 5, 113.
• "Thou, indeed, dear swallow," verse, 1, 240.
• "Thou sing'st the affairs of Thebes," verse, 1, 241.
• "Though all the fates should prove unkind," verse, 1, 151.
• Thoughts, sell your clothes and keep your, 2, 361.
• "Thracian colt, why at me," verse, 1, 243.
• Thrasher, brown, 2, 175.
• Three Rivers (Que.), 5, 21, 93.
• Three-o'clock courage, 5, 208, 209.
• Thrush, wood, Indian word for, 3, 186; 6, 75.
• Thseng-tseu, quoted, 2, 241.
• Thunder-storm, violent, 3, 261, 262.
• Thursday, 1, 317-355.
• "Thus, perchance, the Indian hunter," verse, 1, 247.
• Tide and waves, power of, 4, 288-290.
• Tierra del Fuego, 2, 14.
• Timber, 3, 18; land, best in Maine, 235.
• Time, measurement of the world's, 1, 346; but a stream to fish in, 2, 109.
• Tintinnabulum from without, the noise of contemporaries, 2, 362.
• To a Colt, verse, 1, 243.
• To a Dove, verse, 1, 241.
• To a Stray Fowl, verse, 5, 411.
• To a Swallow, verse, 1, 240, 243.
• To Aristoclides, Victor at the Nemean Games, translation, 5, 384.
• To Asopichus, or Orchomenos, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, translation, 5, 378.
• To My Brother, verse, 5, 403.
• To the Maiden in the East, verse, 5,400.
• To the Lyre, translation, 5, 379.
• Toil, translation, 5, 389.
• "Tom Bowling," sung by T., 6, 313.
• Tomhegan Stream, 3, 203.
• Tools, men the tools of their, 2, 41.
• Tortoise, mud, 6, 128.
• Tortoise, painted, 6, 128.
• "Trainers" in Concord, 4, 392.
• Translations, 5, 337-392.
• Translations from Pindar, 5, 375-392.
• "Transcript," Worcester, 6, 292, 293.
• Trappers, 5, 115.
• Traps, a find of steel, 3, 302.
• Travelers, good humor of, 4, 23.
• Traveling, the profession of, 1, 325; outfit, the best, 5, 31-34. See Walking.
• "Traveller," Boston, 6, 310.
• Traverse, the, 5, 92.
• Treat, Rev. Samuel, 4, 48-52.
• Tree, fall of a, at night, 3, 115; a dangerous, 221.
• Trees, visits to particular, 2, 223; varieties of, 3, 22, 116; along the Penobscot, 107, 120; about camp on the Caucomgomoc, 223; along the Umbazookskus, 231; on island in Heron Lake, farthest northern point, 259; on East Branch, 302; on Cape Cod, 4, 129-131; disappearance of, 254, 255; Canadian, 5, 48; the suggestions of, 125; the natural planting of, 186-202; a town's need of, 272-278; for seasons, 276. See Leaves, Woods, and under names of species.
• Tree-tops, a walk over, 3, 67; appearance of various, 121; things seen and found on, 5, 245, 246.
• "Tribune," New York, 6, 46, 68, 120, 169, 281.
• Trinity, the, 1, 70.
• Trout, true and cousin, 3, 59.
• Trout Stream, 3, 235, 269; Indian name for, 295.
• Troy (N. H.), 5, 4.
• Trumpet-weed, 1, 18.
• Truro (Mass.), 4, 104, 137-139; the wrecks of, 159; 6, 254, 256, 357.
• Trust, 6, 56.
• Truth, contact with, 1, 310; to be preferred to all things, 2, 364.
• "Truth along with ye," 6, 246.
• Tuckerman's Ravine, 6, 334, 348, 349.
• Tuesday, 1, 188-248.
• Tulip-trees, 6, 71, 77, 90.
• "Turning the silver," verse, 1, 240.
• Turkey, the country, 6, 147, 175; the fowl, 147.
• Turpentine-makers, Indian capture of, 1, 174.
• Turtles, land and sea, 4, 202. See Tortoise.
• Turtle, the snapping, 5, 124.
• Turtle-dove, long ago lost hound, bay horse, and, 2, 18, 19.
• Tyngsborough (Mass.), origin of, 1, 113; 114, 118, 123, 126, 152, 170, 325, 377, 379, 382, 384.
• Tyndale, Mrs., 6, 298.
• Ultima Thule, 6, 236, 255.
• Umbagog Lake, 6, 321.
• Umbazookskus Lake, 3, 233, 238.
• Umbazookskus River, 3, 219, 222; Much Meadow River, 229; 230, 232; 6, 325.
• Unappropriated Land, the, 1, 334.
• Uncannunuc, 1, 169, 205, 271, 308, 318, 321, 335.
• Uncivil mountain farmer, an, 1, 212-220.
• "Uncle Bill," somebody's (or everybody's), 4, 141.
• Union Canal, the, 1, 245.
• "Union Magazine," 6, 170.
• Union, War for the, 6, 380, 386, 392, 397.
• Universalist Church, 6, 52.
• "Upon the lofty elm tree sprays," verse, 5, 112.
• Usnea lichen, Indian word for, 3, 186.
• Vaches, Ranz des, 6, 51.
• Val Cartier (Que.), 5, 89.
• Valhalla's kitchen, 6, 44.
• Vallandigham, Clement L., quoted, 4, 415, 428, 429.
• Vandalic verses, 6, 39.
• Varennes, the church of, 5, 97, 98.
• Varro, Marcus Terentius, quoted, 1, 382; 2, 183.
• Veazie's mills, 3, 166.
• Vedas, the, quoted, 2, 99, 240; and Zendavestas, 115.
• Veery, the, 5, 112; 6, 300.
• "Veeshnoo Sarma," quoted, 4, 303.
• Vegetable-made bones, oxen with, 2, 10.
• Vegetables in the oysterman's garden, 4, 100.
• Vegetation, the type of all growth, 5, 128.
• Vergennes (Vt.), 5, 7.
• Vessels seen from Cape Cod, 4, 105, 106, 118, 120-123.
• Vestry, of church, 6, 302, note, 322, 359.
• View, the point of, 1, 372.
• Village, The, 2, 185-191.
• Village, should play part of a nobleman as patron of art, 2, 121, 122; a great news-room, 185; running the gantlet in the, 186; a continuous, 5, 42, 43; the, 213; trees in a, 275-278.
• Virgil, quoted, 1, 93; 6, viii, 28; reading, 5, 138, 143, 144.
• Virginia Road, 6, 4, 6, note.
• Virginity, 6, 207.
• Virid Lake as a name for White Pond, 2, 219.
• Vishnu Purana, the, quoted, 2, 298; 6, 300.
• Visitors, 2, 155-170.
• Von Hammer, 6, 61.
• Vose, Henry (H. U. 1837), 6, 18.
• Voting, 4, 363, 364, 402, 403; 6, 15, 18, 141.
• Voyageurs, Canadian, 3, 6.
• Vulcan, 6, 28, 31, 39.
• Wachusett Mountain, 1, 169, 173; a view of, 5, 138; range, the, 139; ascent of, 142; birds or vegetation on summit of, 143; night on, 145, 146; an observatory, 147; 6, 83, 234, 237, 280, 321, 330, 372.
• Wagon journey to White Mountains, 6, 330, 334.
• Waite's farm, 3, 23.
• "Walden," the book, 6, 233, 238, 272, note, 274, note, 378, 399.
• Walden Pond, house on the shore of, 2, 3; purpose in living by, to transact private business, 21; advantages of, as a place of business, 23; March, 1845, went to woods by, 45; of their own natures, fishing in the, 145; no more lonely than, 152; old settler who dug, 152; bottomless as, 166; scenery of, 195-216; origin of paving of, 202; temperature of water in, 203, 204; animals in, 204-206; purity of, 214; fishing alone detains citizens at, 235; ducks on, 262; first ice on, 272; dates of first freezing over, 275; 291; bare of snow, 299; fox on thin ice of, 306; pickerel of, 314; surveying and sounding, 315-324; cutting ice on, 323-329; breaking up of ice in, 329-334; 6, 7, 28, 30, 59, note, 104, 122, 125, 132, 135-141.
• Walden road, snow in, 2, 294.
• Walden vale, giving notice, by smoke, to inhabitants of, 279; making amends for silence to, 295.
• Walden Woods, geese alighting in, 2, 274; Cato Ingraham living in, 283; Zilpha living in, 283; Hugh Quoil living in, 288; owl's hooting the lingua vernacula of, 300; fox-hunting in, 306; 6, 116, 133, 140, 158, 337, note.
• Waldenses, pickerel, 2, 315.
• Waldo, Giles, 6, 72, 79, 82, 84, 97, 105.
• Walk to Wachusett, A, 5, 133-152.
• Walkers, the order of, 5, 206, 207; 6, 337.
• Walking, 5, 205-248.
• "Walking," a lecture on, 6, 302, 395.
• Walks, not on beaten paths, 5, 213, 214; the direction of, 216-219; adventurous, 285; by night, 326; 6, 84.
• Walls, Quebec and other, 5, 74.
• Walpole (N. H.), 6, 281.
• Walton of Concord River, the, 1, 22.
• Wamesit, 1, 82.
• "Wanderer, The," 6, 328, note, 365, note.
• Wannalancet, 1, 268, 269.
• War, 6, 91; stupidity of, 381; Crimean, 237, 244, 251, 271; Revolutionary, 323, 359; of 1861, 380, 386, 392, 397.
• Ward, George, 6, 72, 84.
• Ward, Mrs., 6, 52, 73.
• Warmth, bodily and spiritual, 6, 205, 219, 244, 269.
• "Warping up," 3, 57.
• Washing in a lake, 3, 249.
• Wasps, visits from, 2, 265.
• Wassataquoik River, the, 3, 312.
• Wasson, D. A., 6, 307, 309.
• Watatic Mountain, 5, 137, 147.
• Water, colors of, 2, 195-197; transparency of, 197-199; Cape Cod, 4, 225.
• Water-lily, the white, 1, 19.
• Water-troughs, 3, 97.
• Watson, Edward, 6, 301, note, 328, note.
• Watson, B. M., 6, 190, 191, 234, 238, 309, 327-329, 333.
• Watson, Mrs. Mary, 6, 43, 329.
• Waves on the shore, 4, 155-158.
• Wawatam, the friendship of, 1, 291.
• Wayfarer's-tree, or hobble-bush, 3, 96.
• Wayland (Mass.), 1, 3, 4, 5, 36, 37; 2, 173.
• "We pronounce thee happy, Cicada," verse, 5, 108.
• "We see the planet fall," verse, 1, 390.
• Wealth, folly of accumulating, 6, 161, 162, 318, 319.
• Webb, Rev. Benjamin, 4, 54, 55.
• Webb's Island, the lost, 4, 152.
• Webster, Daniel, Joe Polis's call upon, 3, 279; quoted, 4, 125; the power of, 384, 385; quoted, 385; and the Fugitive Slave Law, 395; mentioned, 6, 105, 237.
• Webster Pond, 3, 270, 273; Indian name for, 273.
• Webster Stream, 3, 161, 264, 273; Indian name for, 275, 289, 297, 299, 300.
• Wednesday, 1, 249-316.
• Weeds, destruction of various, 2, 178.
• "Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A," 6, 139, 336, note, 378, 399, 400, 409-111; refused by publishers, 156, 172; debt for, 182, 209; cited, 274.
• "Welcome, Englishmen!" 2, 170.
• Weld, Theodore, 6, 283, 287.
• Weld, Mrs. (Grimké), 6, 283.
• Well Meadow, 2, 307.
• Wellfleet (Mass.), oysters, 4, 82; Bellamy wrecked off, 160; a good headquarters for visitors to the Cape, 271.
• Wellfleet Oysterman, The, 4, 79-102.
• Wendell Phillips before the Concord Lyceum, 4, 311-315.
• West, walking towards the, 5, 217-220; general tendency towards the, 219-224; T. would go to, 6, 20, 21; a friend in, 36; immigrants to, 96, 110; T.'s tour in, 380, 384-392.
• West Branch, tramp up the, 3, 17; 20, 31, 32, 291, 316.
• West Indies, 6, 342, 383.
• West Indian provinces of the fancy and imagination, 2, 8.
• Westborough (Mass.), 1, 3, 32.
• Westford (Mass.), 1, 113.
• Westmoreland, etymology of, 5, 6.
• Weston (Mass.), 2, 308.
• Whales, in the St. Lawrence, 5, 91.
• "What dost thou wish me to do to thee?" verse, 1, 243.
• "What's the railroad to me?" verse, 2, 135, 136.
• "Whate'er we leave to God, God does," verse, 5, 396.
• Wheeler, Charles Stearns (H. U. 1837), 6, 58, 59, note, 60, 91, 97, 103.
• Whelan, Hugh, the gardener, 6, 77, 140, 143, 144, 148, 154.
• "When descends on the Atlantic," Longfellow, quoted, 4, 69.
• "When life contracts into a vulgar span," verse, 5, 404.
• "When the world grows old by the chimney-side," verse, 5, 417.
• "When Winter fringes every bough," verse, 5, 176.
• "Where gleaming fields of haze," verse, 1, 234.
• Where I Lived, and What I Lived for, 2, 90-109.
• "Where they once dug for money," verse, 5, 214.
• "Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me," verse, 1, 2.
• Whetstone Falls, 3, 313.
• Whim, centrifugal force of, 6, 154.
• Whipple, Edwin Percy, 6, 145.
• Whip-poor-wills, singing of, 2, 137.
• White, Miss E., 6, 29, 32.
• White Mountains, the, 1, 85, 89; 3, 4; 6, 320, 330, 332, 334, 347, 348, 370.
• White Pond, 2, 199, 201, 219, 221; plan of, 320; 6, 15.
• Whitehead, near Cohasset, 4, 10.
• Whitehead Island, 3, 94.
• Whitman, Walt, 6, 272, note; seen by T., 290, 291, genius of, 295, 296; brag of, 297; seen by Alcott, 298.
• Whitney, Peter, quoted, 5, 312.
• Whittier, John Greenleaf, 6, 51, note.
• "Who equaleth the coward's haste," verse, 5, 417.
• "Who sleeps by day and walks by night," verse, 1, 41.
• "Whoa," the crying of, to mankind, 5, 235.
• Wicasuck Island, 1, 113, 115, 381, 382.
• Wigwam, in Indian gazettes, symbol of a day's march, 2, 30.
• Wild, the, a lecture on, 6, 302; T.'s love of, 16, 36, 37, 121, 174, 175.
• Wild Apples, 5, 290-322.
• Wilderness, the need of, 1, 179.
• Wildness, cultivation and, 1, 55; the necessity of, 5, 224-236; in literature, 230-233; in domestic animals, 234-236.
• Wiley, B. B., 6, 298-302. See Letters.
• Williams, I. T., 6, 40.
• Williamstown (Mass.), 1, 192, 197, 244.
• Willow, the narrow-leaved, 1, 18; the water, 43.
• Willow, golden leaves, 5, 266.
• Wind, power of the, 4, 286-288.
• Windham (N. H.), 1, 92.
• Windmills, Cape Cod, 4, 34, 35.
• Windows in Cape Cod houses, 4, 79, 80.
• Windsor, N. S., 6, 338.
• Winnepiseogee, Lake, 1, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91.
• Winslow, Edward, quoted, 2, 158.
• Winter, warmth in, 5, 167, 168; the woods in, 168, 169; nature a hortus siccus in, 179; as represented in the almanac, 182; ignored in Hebrew revelation, 183; evening, 183.
• Winter Animals, 2, 299-311.
• Winter Scene, A, verse, 5, 410.
• Winter Visitors, Former Inhabitants and, 2, 282-298.
• Winter Walk, A, 5, 163-183.
• "Winter Walk, A," the essay, 6, 94.
• Winthrop, Gov., quoted, 4, 236; his Concord house, 6, 261, note.
• Wisconsin, 6, 110, 387.
• Wise, Henry A., quoted, 4, 428.
• Wise man, the, 4, 462, 463.
• Wisdom, of the ancients, 6, 114, 299, 300; of the Indian, 311, 316.
• "With frontier strength ye stand your ground," verse, 1, 170; 5, 133.
• "Within the circuit of this plodding life," verse, 5, 103.
• Wolfe and Montcalm, monument to, 5, 73.
• Wolfe's Cove, 5, 22.
• Wolff, Joseph, quoted, 1, 60, 131.
• Wolofs, the, 1, 109, 138.
• Woman, her quarrel with man, 6, 198; her beauty, 198, 199; a merely sentimental, 200.
• Women, pinched up, 4, 24; Canadian, 5, 34.
• Wood, gathering, 2, 275; relative value of in different places, 277.
• Wood, William, quoted, 4, 85.
• Wood End, wreck at, 4, 259, 260.
• Woodbine, 5, 3, 4, 276.
• Woodchopper, a Canadian, 2, 159-166; winter represented as a, 5, 182.
• Woodchuck, eating a, 2, 66; 6, 168, 372.
• Woodman, hut and work of a, 5, 172, 173. See Woodchopper.
• Wood-pile, the, 2, 278.
• Woods, turning face to the, 2, 21; wetness of the, 3, 22; characteristics of Maine, and uses of all, 167-173; destruction of the, 252-254; in winter, the, 5, 168, 169. See Trees.
• Woodstock (N. B.), 3, 256.
• "Woof of the sun, ethereal gauze," verse, 1, 229.
• Worcester, 6, 158, 160; T. lectures at, 181, 192, 232; visits, 286, 292, 308.
• Wordsworth, 5, 143, 144; reading, 6, 229.
• Work, quiet, 1, 110; exaggerated importance of our, 2, 12; our excess of, 4, 456.
• World, a cow that is hard to milk, 6, 135; must look out, 146; noble to stand aside from, 159; idly complaining, 196; its way, 209; and Atlas, 243; no match for a thought, 357; pitch it into a hollow place, sit down and eat your luncheon, 362; one world at a time, 379.
• Worms, glow (Lampyris noctiluca), 6, 310, 327.
• Wreck, of the Franklin, 4, 73; of Bellamy, the pirate, 160, 161; of the British ship of war Somerset, 162; story of a man from a, 259, 260.
• Wreckage, 4, 115-117.
• Wrecker, a Cape Cod, 4, 59, 60.
• Wrecks, Truro, 4, 159; the consequences of, 163, 164.
• Writing, grace and power in, 1, 108-111; correct, 6, 94, 156; remarks on, ix, 26, 28, 38, 67, 94, 156, 311, 312, 354.
• Wyman, the potter, 2, 288.
• Wyman trial, the, 6, 104.
• Yankee in Canada, A, 5, 1-101.
• "Yankee in Canada, A," publication of, 6, 172, 215.
• Yankees, how first called, 1, 53.
• Yarmouth (Mass.), 4, 22; 6, 256.
• Yellow house, 6, 7.
• Yellow Medicine, river, 6, 391.
• Yellow Pine Lake, 2, 219.
• Yoga (Hindoo observance), 6, 175.
• Yogi, 6, 175.
• "Yorrick," the, 5, 1, 12, note.
• Young, Arthur, 2, 61.
• Youth, and age, 2, 9.
• "Youth of the Poet and Painter," Channing's, 6, 94, 113, note, 117.
• Zendavestas, Vedas and, 2, 115.
• Zilpha, a colored woman, 2, 283.
• Zoroaster, let the hired man commune with, 2, 120.