Familiar Letters / The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)

by Henry David Thoreau

[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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FOOTNOTES

[1] These, written to Thomas Cholmondeley, are still (1906) lacking; but a few other letters have been published since 1894.

[2] He was named David for this uncle; Dr. Ripley was the minister of the whole town in 1817. The Red House stood near the Emerson house on the Lexington road; the Woodwards were a wealthy family, afterwards in Quincy, to which town Dr. Woodward left a large bequest.

[3] John Thoreau, grandfather of Henry, born at St. Helier's, Jersey, April, 1754, was a sailor on board the American privateer General Lincoln, November, 1779, and recognized La Sensible, French frigate, which carried John Adams from Boston to France. See Journal, vol. v, June 11, 1853. This John Thoreau, son of Philip, died in Concord, 1800.

[4] This had been the abode of old Deacon Parkman, a granduncle of the late Francis Parkman, the historian, and son of the Westborough clergyman from whom this distinguished family descends. Deacon Parkman was a merchant in Concord, and lived in what was then a good house. It stood in the middle of the village, where the Public Library now is. The "Texas" house was built by Henry Thoreau and his father John; it was named from a section of the village then called "Texas," because a little remote from the churches and schools; perhaps the same odd fancy that had bestowed the name of "Virginia" on the road of Thoreau's birthplace. The "Yellow House reformed" was a small cottage rebuilt and enlarged by the Thoreaus in 1850; in this, on the main street, Henry and his father and mother died.

[5] During the greater part of his college course he signed himself D. H. Thoreau, as he was christened (David Henry); but being constantly called "Henry," he put this name first about the time he left college, and was seldom afterwards known by the former initials.

[6] The impression made on one classmate and former room-mate ("chum") of Thoreau, by this utterance, will be seen by this fragment of a letter from James Richardson of Dedham (afterwards Reverend J. Richardson), dated Dedham, September 7, 1837:—