THE MAINE WOODS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
MDCCCCVI

COPYRIGHT 1864 BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS
COPYRIGHT 1892, 1893, AND 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

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CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTORY NOTE]
[KTAADN]
[CHESUNCOOK]
[THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH]
[APPENDIX]
[I. TREES]
[II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS]
[III. LIST OF PLANTS]
[IV. LIST OF BIRDS]
[V. QUADRUPEDS]
[VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION]
[VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS]
[INDEX]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[SNOWBERRY, Carbon photograph]
[MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO,]
[MAINE WILDERNESS]
[PINE TREE, BOAR MOUNTAIN]
[SQUAW MOUNTAIN, MOOSEHEAD LAKE]
[MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO]
[MOUNT KINEO CLIFF]

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The Maine Woods was the second volume collected from his writings after Thoreau’s death. Of the material which composed it, the first two divisions were already in print. “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods” was the title of a paper printed in 1848 in The Union Magazine, and “Chesuncook” was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1858. The book was edited by his friend William Ellery Channing.