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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.

Fair Cities of the plain, =6=, 348.

307, 330; huckleberries on hill, 190, 192; ledges, 308; late ice on 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 cannot tempt the bard," verse, =6=, viii.

Farm, the Hollowell, =2=, 92; a model, 218.

Farmer, John, reflections of, =2=, 245.

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, Father tongue, written language our, =2=, 112.

Feeling, acute, =6=, 35; indifferent, 168.

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; 334, 373; of driftwood, 268; on Mt. Washington, 336; on Monadnoc, 369.

Fish, A Religious, newspaper clipping, =4=, 116; uses of, in 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.

Fishing, with silent man, =2=, 192; at night, 194; alone detains citizens at Walden Pond, 235, 236; impossible to T. without loss of 190.

Fish stories, ancient, =4=, 215, 216.

Fitchburg Railroad, =2=, 127; depot in Boston, =6=, 345; in Acton, 366.

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").

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, 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; 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.

Fowler, Thomas, sheltered and joined by, =3=, 29-34.

Fox Island, =1=, 43.

Foxes outside T.'s house, =2=, 301.

Fragrance, of flowers and political life, =4=, 408.

Franklin, wreck of the ship, =4=, 73; wreckage from the, 92, 114, 115.

Freeman, "Sippio Brister," =2=, 284.

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.

of, 186, 187; and followers, 183-464.

Friends, The Value of, translation, =5=, 387.

Friendship, offense against, =6=, 56-58; advantages of, =6=, 57, 93, Froissart, good place to read, =5=, 23.

Frontier houses, =3=, 144.

Frontiers, wherever men front, =1=, 323.

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.

Fuller, Ellen (Mrs. Channing), =6=, 43.

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.

Furniture, generally considered, =2=, 72-76; moved out of doors, 125.

Galway, Ireland, the wrecked brig from, =4=, 6.

Ganges, =6=, 267.

Garget, poke or, =5=, 253-255.

Gazette, news of political parties, not of nature, printed in the, =2=, 19.

=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.

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=, ash man, 244; reigns, 178, 317.

"God's Drop," proposed as name for Walden Pond, =2=, 215.

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.

Goose, stray, cackling like spirit of the fog, =2=, 46; honking of, Goose Pond, =2=, 219; muskrats in, 299.

Gorilla, =6=, 382.

Gosnold, Captain Bartholomew, =4=, 4; discovery of Cape Cod by, 242-247.

Gossip, stroll to village to hear, =2=, 185.

Government, the best, =4=, 356; the American, 356-360; resistance to, representative, 429; the small business of, 478-480; too much, =5=, 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.

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 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.

Greenbush (Me.), =3=, 324.

Greenland, driftwood in, =4=, 60.

Greenleaf's Map of Maine, =3=, 16.

Grey, Mrs., =6=, 82.

Grey, the traveler, quoted, =5=, 94.

43, 48.

Grippling for apples, =5=, 309.

Gunnar (Norse hero), =6=, 382.

Guns, sound of distant big, =2=, 176.

Habington, William, quoted, =1=, 56, 102.

Hafiz, quoted, =1=, 415.

Half lives, how the other, =1=, 227.

Hall, Leyden, at Plymouth, =6=, 190; Masonic, at Concord, 6; Music, Boston, 359.

Harebell, the, =1=, 92.

Harivansa, the, quoted, =2=, 95.

Harrison and Tyler, =6=, 371.

Hastings, Warren, quoted, =1=, 142, 143.

Hasty, Captain, =6=, 184.

Hasty-pudding, friends flee approach of, =2=, 271.

342.

"Have you not seen," verse, =5=, 413.

Hawk, fish, =5=, 110.

Hawthorne, Sophia, =6=, 45.

Haydon (English painter), =6=, 224, 301.

Haystack, the, =1=, 86.

Head, Sir Francis, quoted, =5=, 47, 221, 222.

Head of the River, New Bedford, =6=, 332, 333, 340.

Headley, Henry, =6=, 65.

164, 220, 223.

Hebe, a worshiper of, =2=, 154.

Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma, =1=, 153.

Height of Glory, The, translation, =5=, 384.

Hell, living in Massachusetts, or, =4=, 405, 406.

friendship with, 291.

HERALD OF FREEDOM, =4=, 306-310.

Hercules, labors of, trifling compared with those of T.'s neighbors, 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.

Herndon, William Lewis, quoted, =4=, 479, 480.

Heron, =1=, 416.

Herrick, Robert, =5=, 298.

Herring River, =4=, 80.

Hesiod, quoted, =1=, 64.

Hester Street, meeting at, =6=, 97.

Hibiscus, =1=, 19.

HIGHER LAWS, =2=, 232-246.

HIGHLAND LIGHT, THE, =4=, 150-175.

Highland Light, =4=, 132, 150; description and stories of, 167-175; =6=, 255.

"Highlands" between the Penobscot and St. John, =3=, 238.

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.

Hodge, assistant geologist, quoted, =3=, 29, 80.

Hog Island, inside of Hull, =4=, 15.

Holland, the King of, in his element, =3=, 239.

Hollowell place, the, =2=, 91, 92.

Homer, =1=, 97, 394; Iliad, =2=, 111; never yet printed in English, Hontan, French explorer, =6=, 389.

Hood's "Song of the Shirt," =6=, 224.

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.

Horses, to hang clothes on, wooden, =2=, 23, 24; men's work for, =4=, "Horses have the mark," verse, =1=, 243.

Horseshoe Interval, the, =1=, 126, 377.

270.

Hosmer, Solon, =6=, 257.

_Hospitalality_, not hospitality but, =2=, 168.

Hotham, Edmund Stuart, =6=, 59, note.

Hottentots and Ruskin, =6=, 319.

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.

Houses, superfluities in our, =2=, 39; Canadian, =5=, 44, 59; American compared with Canadian, 100; lived in by Thoreau, =6=, 4-7, 24, 58, Housework, a pleasant pastime, =2=, 125.

Huckleberries never reach Boston, =2=, 192.

Hudson, Rev. Henry N., described, =6=, 145.

Huguenots of Staten Island, =1=, 190.

Hull (Mass.), =4=, 15.

Humane Society, huts of the, =4=, 63, 74-78.

203, 208, 209.

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=, Iceberg, =6=, 335.

"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.

"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 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 Indoors, living, =5=, 207-209.

Infidelity, the real, =1=, 77.

Ingraham, Cato, slave of Duncan, =2=, 283.

Inherited property a misfortune, =2=, 5.

Inn, inscription on wall of Swedish, =5=, 141.

Insect foes, =3=, 246.

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.

Irish, physical condition of the poor, =2=, 38, 39.

117.

"It doth expand my privacies," verse, =1=, 182.

"It is no dream of mine," verse, =2=, 215.

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.

Jail in Concord, =6=, 52.

Jamblichus, quoted, =1=, 184.

James, Henry, Sr., meets T., =6=, 68, 80; mentioned, 85, 101; his 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.

Joel, the prophet, quoted, =5=, 322.

Jones, Sir William, =1=, 154.

Jonson, Ben, quoted, =5=, 226.

=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, Kalmiana. _See_ Nuphar.

Katepskonegan Falls, =3=, 52; Carry, 81.

Katepskonegan Stream, =3=, 50.

Kearsage, =1=, 86.

Kelp, =4=, 67-70.

Kenduskeag, meaning of, =3=, 156.

Kent, the Duke of, property of, =5=, 38.

Killington Peak, =5=, 6.

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, 313; =6=, 132, 255.

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.

Laing, Samuel, quoted, =2=, 29, 30.

Lake, the earth's eye, a, =2=, 206; country of New England, the, =3=, Lake Champlain, Long Wharf to, =2=, 132; =5=, 6-8.

Lake St. Peter, =5=, 96, 97.

Lalemant, Hierosme, quoted, =5=, 22.

LANDLORD, THE, =5=, 153-162.

Landlord, qualities of the, =5=, 153-162.

writes for the "Dial," 59-63.

Lar, =6=, 67.

Larch, extensive wood of, =3=, 231.

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.

276, 289, 303, 349.

Ledum (Labrador tea), =6=, 327.

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.

Letters: From Louis Agassiz, =6=, 129. From A. B. Alcott, =6=, 397; to Benton, =6=, 398; to him, 399. To Mrs. Lucy Cotton Brown, =6=, 35, 37, From Ellery Channing, =6=, 121, 271. From Thomas Cholmondeley, =6=, Miss Elizabeth Hoar, =6=, 116. To Parker Pillsbury, =6=, 378. From James Richardson, =6=, 10, note. From Daniel Ricketson, =6=, 238, 246, 300.

Lexington (Mass.), =2=, 306.

Libraries, at Cambridge, =6=, 252; at Concord, 270; at New York, 81, 106, 109, 114, 122.

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 173; mean aspects of, 79, 82, 229; phenomena of, xi, xii, 40, 47, 199, 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.

Limits of living, =2=, 7.

138, 139; Flint's Pond in, 216; chestnut woods of, 263; Lining of beauty for houses, =2=, 44.

Linnæus (Linné, Karl von), quoted, =5=, 222; =6=, 207, 208.

Little Reading, =2=, 116.

Little Schoodic River, the, =3=, 23.

Loggers, camps of, =3=, 20; a gang of, 38.

Logs, from woods to market, sending, =3=, 46-49.

Long Pond, =6=, 264.

Long River (La Rivière Longue), =6=, 389.

Long Wharf, taking a place at, =4=, 267.

Longueuil (Que.), =5=, 20.

Loon, hunting, and a game with the, =2=, 258-262; Indian word for, =3=, 182; cry of the, 247, 248.

Lost, in the lakes, experienced woodmen. =3=, 41; in the woods, T.'s companion, 285-290.

Lost dove, horse, and hound, =6=, 301.

Louisa, Aunt (Dunbar), =6=, 99.

"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 in the eastern sky," verse, =1=, 46; =5=, 400.

264.

Lowell, Mrs., =6=, 24.

Lucretius, =6=, xi.

Luxury, fruit of a life of, =2=, 16.

Lydgate, John, quoted, =1=, 57.

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.

198, 261.

McTaggart, John, quoted, =5=, 94.

MacTavish, Simon, =5=, 98.

Mad River, =1=, 87.

Maiden in the East, =6=, 329, note.

Maine, mountainous region of, =3=, 4; intelligence of backwoodsmen in, 322, 324-326.

Male and female, =6=, 198, 207.

Mallet for flints, =6=, 19.

freedom, 175, 188, 196; his generation, 208; his immortality, 259, Man, translation, =5=, 383.

Man, The Divine in, translation, =5=, 386.

268, 274.

Manilla hemp, =2=, 132.

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.

Maps of Cape Cod, and New England, =4=, 227-231, 234; of walking Marañon, the river, =5=, 93.

Marlborough (Mass.), =5=, 214.

Marlborough Chapel, =6=, 129.

302.

Mars' Hill, =3=, 8.

Marston, John, of Taunton, =6=, 21.

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, 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.

Mattawamkeag, the, =3=, 12, 13, 16; meaning of the name, 157; 256.

Matungamook Lake, =3=, 295.

Maturing, no need of haste towards, =2=, 359.

Maxims. _See_ Aphorisms.

Meadow River, Musketaquid or, =1=, 8.

Meadows, of Concord, =6=, 36, 92, 250, 334; birds in the, 14; cranberries in, 204.

Meat and drink, =6=, 164, 165.

Memorial Verses, by Channing, =6=, 65, note.

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.

Menhaden, schools of, =4=, 120.

Mentors, of little use, =2=, 10.

Menu, the laws of, =1=, 154-161.

Merlin, =6=, 227.

Merriam, Francis Jackson, =6=, 366-368.

Merrimack River, =1=, 8, 19, 62, 63, 80, 81; origin and course of the, 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.

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.

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,