INDEX
Achilles, The Youth of, translation, [385].
Acre, an, as long measure, [60].
Acton (Mass.), [136].
Æschylus, The Prometheus Bound of, translation, [337]-[375].
Æsculapius, translation, [380].
Agriculture, the task of Americans, [229]-[231].
Ajax, The Treatment of, translation, [387].
Alphonse, Jean, and Falls of Montmorenci, [38], [39]; quoted, [91].
America, superiorities of, [220]-[224].
American, money in Quebec, [24]; the, and government, [82], [83].
Amphiaraus, The Death of, translation, [387].
Anacreon, quoted, [108], [109], [110].
Andropogons, or beard-grasses, [225]-[258].
Ange Gardien Parish, [42]; church of, [46].
Angler's Souvenir, the, [119].
Apollo, translation, [383].
Apple, history of the tree, [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, [298].
Arpent, the, [60].
Ashburnham (Mass.), [3]; with a better house than any in Canada, [100].
Ash trees, [6].
Assabet, the, [136].
Audubon, John James, reading, [103]; [109, note]; [112, note].
Aurora of Guido, The, verse, [399].
Autumn foliage, brightness of, [249]-[252].
Bartram, William, quoted, [199].
Bathing feet in brooks, [140].
Beard-grasses, andropogons or, [255]-[258].
Beauport (Que.), and le Chemin de, [30]; getting lodgings in, [35]-[38]; church in, [69]; Seigniory of, [96].
Beaupré, Seigniory of the Côte de, [41].
"Behold, how spring appearing," verse, [109].
Bellows Falls (Vt.), [5].
Birch, yellow, [6].
Birds and mountains, [149].
Bittern, booming of the, [111].
Black Knight, The, verse, [415, note].
Blueberries, and milk, supper of, [144].
Bluebird, the, [110].
Bobolink, the, [113].
Bodæus, quoted, [317].
Bolton (Mass.), [137].
Bonsecours Market (Montreal), [11].
Books on natural history, reading, [103]-[105].
Boots, Canadian, [51].
Boston (Mass.), [3], [7], [9].
Boucher, quoted, [91].
Boucherville (Que.), [20].
Bouchette, Topographical Description of the Canadas, quoted, [41], [42], [63], [64], [89], [92], [94], [95].
Bout de l'Isle, [20].
Brand's Popular Antiquities quoted, [297], [298].
Bravery of science, the, [106], [107].
"Brother, where dost thou dwell?" verse, [403].
Burton, Sir Richard Francis, [228].
Butternut tree, [6].
Cabs, Montreal, [18]; Quebec, [69], [70].
Caddis-worms, [170].
Caen, Emery de, quoted, [52].
Caleche, the (see Cabs), [69], [70].
Canada, apparently older than the United States, [80], [81]; population of, [81], [82]; the French in, a nation of peasants, [82].
Canadense, Iter, and the word, [101].
Canadian, French, [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].
Cane, a straight and a twisted, [184], [185].
Cap aux Oyes, [93].
Cape Diamond, [22], [40]; signal-gun on, [85]; the view from, [88].
Cape Rosier, [92].
Cape Tourmente, [41], [89], [96].
Cartier, Jacques, [7], and the St. Lawrence, [89]-[91]; quoted, [97], [98], [99].
Castor and Pollux, translation, [388].
Cattle-show, men at, [184].
Cemetery of fallen leaves, [269], [270].
Chaleurs, the Bay of, [90].
Chalmers, Dr., in criticism of Coleridge, [324].
Chambly (Que.), [11].
Champlain, Samuel, quoted, [8]; whales in map of, [91].
Charlevoix, quoted, [52], [91].
Château Richer, church of, [46], [49]; lodgings at, [59].
Chaucer, quoted, [159], [160].
Chaudière River, the, [21]; Falls of the, [69], [70].
Cherry-stones, transported by birds, [188].
Chickadee, the, [108].
Chien, La Rivière au, [56].
Churches, Catholic and Protestant, [12]-[14]; roadside, [46].
Claire Fontaine, La, [26].
Clothes, bad-weather, [28]; Canadian, [45].
Colors, names and joy of, [273]-[275].
Concord (Mass.), [3], [6], [8]; History of, quoted, [115], [133], [149], [152].
Concord River, the, [115], [139].
Connecticut River, [5], [145], [147].
Coureurs de bois, and de risques, [43].
Crickets, the creaking of, [108].
Crookneck squash seeds, Quebec, [87].
Crosses, roadside, [45], [46].
Crow, the, [108]; not imported from Europe, [113].
Crystalline botany, [126], [127].
Culm, bloom in the, [253].
Darby, William, quoted, [93], [94].
Delay, verse, [418].
Departure, The, verse, [414].
Ding Dong, verse, [417].
Dogs in harness, [30].
Drake, Sir Francis, quoted, [325].
Dubartas, quoted, translation of Sylvester, [328], [329].
Ducks, [110].
"Each summer sound," verse, [112].
East Main, Labrador and, health in the words, [104].
Easterbrooks Country, the, [299], [303].
Edda, the Prose, quoted, [291].
Eggs, a master in cooking, [61], [62].
Elm, the, [263], [264], [276].
Elysium, translation, [375].
Emerson, George B., quoted, [200].
English and French in the New World, [66], [67].
Entomology, the study of, [107], [108].
Evelyn, John, quoted, [310], [311].
Ex Oriente Lux; ex Occidente Frux, [221].
Experiences, the paucity of men's, [241], [242].
Eyes, the sight of different men's, [285]-[288].
Fall of the Leaf, The, verse, [407].
Falls, a drug of, [58].
Fame, translation, [378].
Fish, spearing, [119], [121]-[123].
Fisher, the pickerel, [180], [181].
Fishes, described in Massachusetts Report, [118].
Fitchburg (Mass.), [3].
Fitzwilliam (N. H.), [4].
Foreign country, quickly in a, [31].
Forests, nations preserved by, [229].
Fortifications, ancient and modern, [77], [78].
Fox, the, [117].
French, difficulties in talking, [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].
Friends, The Value of, translation, [387].
Froissart, good place to read, [23].
Frost-smoke, [166].
Funeral Bell, The, verse, [405].
Fur Countries, inspiring neighborhood of the, [105].
Geese, first flock of, [110].
Gesner, Konrad von, quoted, [318].
Gosse, P. A., Canadian Naturalist, [91].
Great Brook, [137].
Great Fields, the, [257].
"Great God! I ask thee for no meaner pelf," verse, [418].
Great River, the, or St. Lawrence, [89], [90], [91], [92].
Greece, verse, [404].
Greece, The Freedom of, translation, [390].
Green Mountains, the, [6], [100], [145], [147].
Grey, the traveler, quoted, [94].
Grippling for apples, [309].
Gulls, [110].
Guyot, Arnold, [93]; quoted, [93], [94], [220], [221].
Harvard (Mass.), [151], [152].
"Have you not seen," verse, [413].
Hawk, fish, [110].
Head, Sir Francis, quoted, [47], [221], [222].
Height of Glory, The, translation,384.
Hercules, names the Hill of Kronos, translation, [377].
Hercules' Prayer concerning Ajax, son of Telamon, translation, [390].
Herrick, Robert, [298].
Highlanders in Quebec, [25]-[27], [28], [29], [79].
"His steady sails he never furls," verse, [109].
Homer, quoted, [181].
Hoosac Mountains, [147].
Hop, culture of the, [136], [137].
Horses, Canadian, [34].
Hortus siccus, nature in winter a, [179].
House, the perfect, [153].
Houses, Canadian, [44], [59]; American compared with Canadian, [100].
Humboldt, Alexander von, [92], [93].
Hunt House, the old, [201].
Hypseus' Daughter Cyrene, translation, [383].
"I saw the civil sun drying earth's tears," verse, [409].
"I see the civil sun drying earth's tears," verse, [120].
Ice, the booming of, [176].
Ice formations in a river-bank, [128], [129].
"If I am poor," verse, [412].
"If thou wilt but stand by my ear," verse, [418].
"If with light head erect I sing," verse, [396].
Ignorance, Society for the Diffusion of Useful, [239].
Imitations of Charette drivers, Yankee, [99].
"In this roadstead I have ridden," verse, [414].
"In two years' time 't had thus," verse, [303].
Independence, verse, [415].
Inn, inscription on wall of Swedish, [141].
Inspiration, quatrain, [418].
Inspiration, verse, [396].
Invertebrate Animals, Report on, quoted, [129].
"I've searched my faculties around," verse, [418].
Jesuit Relations, quoted, [96].
Jesuits' Barracks, the, in Quebec, [24].
Joel, the prophet, quoted, [322].
Jonson, Ben, quoted, [226].
Josselyn, John, quoted, [2].
Kalm, Swedish traveler, quoted, [21], [30], [39], [65]; on sea-plants near Quebec, [93].
Keene (N. H.) Street, [4]; heads like, [4].
Kent, the Duke of, property of, [38].
Killington Peak, [6].
Knowledge, the slow growth of, [181]; Society for the Diffusion of Useful, [239]; true, [240].
Labrador and East Main, health in the words, [104].
Lake, a woodland, in winter, [174], [175].
Lalement, Hierosme, quoted, [22].
Lancaster (Mass.), [138], [139], [149].
Landlord, qualities of the, [153]-[162].
La Prairie (Que.), [11], [18], [99].
Lead, rain of, [26].
Leaves, fallen, [264]-[270]; scarlet oak, [278]-[281].
Lincoln (Mass.), [282], [283].
Linnæus, quoted, [222].
Longueuil (Que.), [20].
Loudon, John Claudius, quoted, [197], [200], [291], [292], [310].
"Low in the eastern sky," verse, [400].
McCulloch's Geographical Dictionary, quoted, [49].
McTaggart, John, quoted, [94].
MacTavish, Simon, [98].
Man, translation, [383].
Man, The Divine in, translation, [386].
Map, drawing, on kitchen table, [60]; of Canada, inspecting a, [95].
Maple, the red and sugar, [6]; the red, [258]-[263], [265]; the sugar, [261], [271]-[278].
Marañon, the river, [93].
Marlborough (Mass.), [214].
Merrimack River, the, [147].
Michaux, André, quoted, [269].
Michaux, François André, quoted, [220], [261], [301].
Midnight, exploring the, [323].
Miller, a crabbed, [69].
Milne, Alexander, quoted, [193], [194].
Mississippi, discovery of the, [90]; extent of the, [93]; a panorama of the, [224].
Mission, verse, [418].
Monadnock, [4], [143], [145], [147].
Montcalm, Wolfe and, monument to, [73], [74].
Montmorenci County, [62]; the habitans of, [64]-[68].
Montmorenci, Falls of, [29], [37]-[39].
Montreal (Que.), [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].
Moon, The, verse, [406].
Moonlight, Night and, [323]-[333].
Moonlight, reading by, [145].
Moore, Thomas, [98].
Morning, winter, early, [163]-[166].
Morton, Thomas, [2].
Mount Royal (Montreal), [11].
Mountains, the use of, [148], [149]; and plain, influence of the, [150], [151].
Muse, The Venality of the, translation, [389].
Musketaquid, Prairie, or Concord River, [115].
Mussel, the, [129].
"My life more civil is and free," verse, [415].
Names, poetry in, [20]; of places, French, [56], [57]; men's, [236], [237]; of colors, [273], [274].
Natural History of Massachusetts, [103]-[131].
Natural history, reading books of, [103], [105].
Nature, health to be found in, [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].
Nature, verse, [395].
Nawshawtuct Hill, [384].
New things to be seen near home, [211], [212].
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, quoted, [290].
Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore, quoted, [238].
Night and Moonlight, [323]-[333].
Night, on Wachusett, [146]; the senses in the, [327], [328].
"No generous action can delay," verse, [418].
Norumbega, [90].
"Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head," verse, [144].
Notre Dame (Montreal), [11]; a visit to, [12]-[14].
Notre Dame des Anges, Seigniory of, [96].
Nurse-plants, [193].
Nuthatch, the, [108].
Nuttall, Thomas, quoted, [111], [112].
Oak, succeeding pine, and vice versa, [185], [187], [189]; the scarlet, [278]-[281]; leaves, scarlet, [278]-[280].
Ogilby, America of 1670, quoted, [91].
Old Marlborough Road, The, verse, [214].
Olympia at Evening, translation, [378].
Omnipresence, verse, [417].
"O Nature! I do not aspire," verse, [395].
"One more is gone," verse, [405].
Origin of Rhodes, translation, [376].
Orinoco, the river, [93].
Orsinora, [90].
Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, [89].
Ossian, quoted, [332].
Ottawa River, the, [41], [94], [98].
Oui, the repeated, [60].
Palladius, quoted, [294], [308].
Patent office, seeds sent by the, [203].
Peleus and Cadmus, translation, [381].
Penobscot Indians, use of muskrat-skins by, [116], [117].
Perch, the, [123].
Phœbe, the, [112].
Pickerel-fisher, the, [180], [181].
Pies, no, in Quebec, [86].
Pilgrims, verse, [413].
Pinbéna, the, [48].
Pindar, Translations from, [375].
Pine, oak succeeding, and vice versa, [185], [187], [189]; family, a, [243], [244].
Pine cone, stripped by squirrels, [196].
Plain and mountain, life of the, [151].
Plants on Cape Diamond, Quebec, [27].
Plicipennes, [170].
Pliny, the Elder, quoted, [292].
Plover, the, [112].
Plum, beach, [201].
Point Levi, by ferry to, [70]; a night at, [71]; [89].
Pointe aux Trembles, [20], [21].
Poke, or garget, the, [253]-[255].
Pommettes, [39].
"Poor bird! destined to lead thy life," verse, [411].
Potherie, quoted, [52].
Poverty, verse, [412].
Prairie River, Musketaquid or, [115].
Prayer, verse, [418].
Prometheus Bound of Æschylus, The, translation, [337].
Purana, the, quoted, [327].
Purple Grasses, The, [252]-[258].
Quail, a white, [109, note].
Quebec (Que.), [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].
Rainbow in Falls of the Chaudière, [70], [71].
Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted, [329].
Reports on the natural history of Massachusetts, [103], [114], [118], [123], [129], [130].
Return of Spring, verse, [109].
Rhexia, [252].
Richelieu, Isles of, [96].
Richelieu or St. John's River, [8].
Richelieu Rapids, the, [21].
Richter, Jean Paul, quoted, [330], [331].
River, the flow of a, [178].
River-bank, ice formations in a, [128], [129].
Rivière du Sud, the, [92].
Rivière more meandering than River, [56].
Roberval, Sieur de, [95], [96].
Robin, the, [109]; a white, [109, note].
Robin Hood Ballads, quoted, [150], [207].
Rowlandson, Mrs., [149].
St. Anne, the Falls of, [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. Charles River, the, [30].
St. Helen's Island (Montreal), [11].
St. John's River, [8].
St. Lawrence River, [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].
St. Maurice River, [94].
Salutations, Canadian, [47].
Sault à la Puce, Rivière du, [48], [58].
Sault Norman, [11].
Sault St. Louis, [11].
Saunter, derivation of the word, [205], [206].
Scarlet Oak, The, [278]-[285].
Schoolhouse, a Canadian, [46].
Science, the bravery of, [106], [107].
Scotchman dissatisfied with Canada, a, [75].
Scriptures, Hebrew, inadequacy of regarding winter, [183].
Sea-plants near Quebec, [93].
Seeds, the transportation of, by wind, [186], [187]; by birds, [187]-[189]; by squirrels, [190]-[200]; the vitality of, [200]-[203].
Seeing, individual, [285]-[288].
Selenites, [323].
Sign language, [61].
Sillery (Que.), [22].
Silliman, Benjamin, quoted, [98].
Smoke, winter morning, [165]; seen from a hilltop, [173], [174].
Snipe-shooting grounds, [48].
Snow, [181], [182]; not recognized in Hebrew Scriptures, [183].
Snowbird, the, [109].
Society, health not to be found in, [105].
Soldiers, English, in Canada, [9], [10], [16], [17]; in Quebec, [24]-[27], [79], [80].
Solomon, quoted, [291].
"Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion," verse, [112].
Sounds, winter morning, [163], [164].
Sorel River, [8].
Sparrow, the song, [109].
Spaulding's farm, [243].
Speech, country, [137].
Spring, on the Concord River, [119]-[121].
Squash, the large yellow, [203].
Squirrel, a red, burying nuts, [190], [191]; with nuts under snow, [195]; pine cones stripped by the, [196]; with filled cheek-pouches, [198].
Stillriver Village (Mass.), [151].
Stillwater, the, [140], [142].
Stow (Mass.), [136].
Succession of Forest Trees, The, [184]-[204].
Sudbury (Mass.), [303].
Sugar Maple, The, [271]-[278].
Sunset, a remarkable, [246]-[248].
Tamias, the steward squirrel, [198].
Tavern, the gods' interest in the, [153]; compared with the church, the, [161], [162].
Tenures, Canadian, [63].
"Thank God, who seasons thus the year," verse, [407].
Thaw, The, verse, [409].
"The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray," verse, [406].
"The god of day his car rolls up the slopes," verse, [399].
"The needles of the pine," verse, [133].
"The rabbit leaps," verse, [410].
"The river swelleth more and more," verse, [120].
"The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell," verse, [165].
Theophrastus, [292].
Thomson, James, quoted, [249].
Thoreau, Henry David, leaves Concord for Canada, 25th September, 1850, [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].
"Thou dusky spirit of the wood," verse, [113].
Three Rivers (Que.), [21], [93].
Three-o'clock courage, [208], [209].
To a Stray Fowl, verse, [411].
To Aristoclides, Victor at the Nemean Games, translation, [384].
To Asopichus, or Orchomenos, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, translation, [378].
To My Brother, verse, [403].
To the Maiden in the East, verse, [400].
To the Lyre, translation, [379].
Toil, translation, [389].
Translations from Pindar, [375]-[392].
Trappers, [115].
Traverse, the, [92].
Traveling outfit, the best, [31]-[34].
Trees, Canadian, [48]; the suggestions of, [125]; the natural planting of, [186]-[202]; a town's need of, [272]-[278]; for seasons, [276].
Tree-tops, things seen and found on, [245], [246].
Troy (N. H.), [4].
Turtle, the snapping, [124].
"Upon the lofty elm tree sprays," verse, [112].
Val Cartier (Que.), [89].
Varennes, the church of, [97], [98].
Veery, the, [112].
Vegetation, the type of all growth, [128].
Vergennes (Vt.), [7].
Village, a continuous, [42], [43]; the, [213]; trees in a, [275]-[278].
Virgil, reading, [138], [143], [144].
Wachusett, a view of, [138]; range, the, [139]; ascent of, [142]; birds or vegetation on summit of, [143]; night on, [145], [146]; an observatory, [147].
Walls, Quebec and other, [74].
Walk to Wachusett, A, [133]-[152].
Walkers, the order of, [206], [207].
Walks, not on beaten paths, [213], [214]; the direction of, [216]-[219]; adventurous, [285]; by night, [326].
"We pronounce thee happy, Cicada," verse, [108].
West, walking towards the, [217]-[220]; general tendency towards the, [219]-[224].
Westmoreland, etymology of, [6].
Whales in the St. Lawrence, [91].
"Whate'er we leave to God, God does," verse, [396].
"When life contracts into a vulgar span," verse, [404].
"When the world grows old by the chimney-side," verse, [417].
"When winter fringes every bough," verse, [176].
"Where they once dug for money," verse, [214].
Whitney, Peter, quoted, [312].
"Who equaleth the coward's haste," verse, [417].
"Whoa," the crying of, to mankind, [235].
Wildness, the necessity of, [224]-[236]; in literature, [230]-[233]; in domestic animals, [234]-[236].
Willow, golden, leaves, [266].
Winter Scene, A, verse, [410].
Winter, warmth in, [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].
"With frontier strength ye stand your ground," verse, [133].
"Within the circuit of this plodding life," verse, [103].
Wolfe and Montcalm, monument to, [73].
Wolfe's Cove, [22].
Women, Canadian, [34].
Woodchopper, winter to be represented as a, [182].
Woodman, hut and work of a, [172], [173].
Woods in winter, the, [168], [169].
Wordsworth, reading, [143], [144].
Yankee in Canada, A, [1]-[101].
"Yorrick," the, [112, note].
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