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, 1[10]; 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.
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