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Minot's Ledge, the light on, =4=, 262, 263.

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 Missouri Compromise, =4=, 408.

Mizzling of sixpences, =6=, 83.

"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.

Momus, objection to Minerva's house by, =2=, 37.

364, 365, 368-372.

hard, 318.

Monhegan Island, =3=, 94.

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.

Moore, Thomas, =5=, 98.

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 Moose River, =3=, 189.

Moose wardens, laxness of, =3=, 231.

Moosehorn Deadwater, =3=, 109.

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, Thomas, =5=, 2.

Mott, Mrs. Lucretia, =6=, 97.

Mount Ararat in Provincetown, =4=, 190.

Mount Monadnock. _See_ Monadnock.

Mount Royal (Montreal), =5=, 11.

Mountains, the use of, =5=, 148, 149; and plain, influence of the, 360, 363, 368, 369.

Mouse, in T.'s house, =2=, 249, 250; the wild, 309.

Muse, The Venality of the, translation =5=, 389.

Musketaquid, Grass-ground, Prairie, or Concord River, the, =1=, 3, 8; Muskrat (musquash), a colony, =2=, 185; in Goose Pond, 299; calling a, 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 Nantasket (Mass.), =4=, 16.

179, 391.

Nashua River, the, =1=, 375.

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 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.

Neva marshes at Walden Pond, no, =2=, 23.

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 New Hampshire, =1=, 85; for the Antipodes, leaving, 151; man, a, 211; New Hollander, naked when European shivers in clothes, =2=, 14.

New Netherland, Secretary of Province, quoted, =2=, 43.

"New Orleans Crescent" and Whitman, =6=, 291.

New things to be seen near home, =5=, 211, 212.

Newbury (Mass.), =1=, 87.

Newbury port (Mass.), =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 Newton, Sir Isaac, =6=, 136.

"New World," =6=, 107, note.

Niagara, =6=, 384.

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, Sunset.

NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT, =5=, 323-333.

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.

Noliseemack, Shad Pond or, =3=, 29.

North Adams (Mass.), =1=, 185.

North River (Assabet), =1=, 4.

Norwegian immigrants, =6=, 110.

"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.

"Now chiefly is my natal hour," verse, =1=, 182.

Nuptials, of plants, =6=, 207; of mankind, 204, 205.

Nuthatch, the, =5=, 108.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Osborn, Rev. Samuel, =4=, 52, 53.

Osier, red, Indian word for, =3=, 188.

Osprey, =6=, 46.

Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, =6=, 183-186.

Ossoli, Marquis of, =6=, 184-186.

Otternic Pond, =1=, 169.

"Our unenquiring corpses lie more low," verse, =1=, 227.

Overseer, yourself the worst, =2=, 8.

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.

Paley, William, on Duty of Submission to Civil Government, quoted, =4=, 361, 362.

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.

Pantaloons, not to be mended like legs, =2=, 24.

PARADISE (TO BE) REGAINED, =4=, 280-305.

Parcæ, the, =6=, 149.

Parkman, Deacon, =6=, 6, note.

Parkman, Francis, =6=, 6.

Parkman house, =6=, 6.

Parliament, provinciality of the English, =4=, 477, 478.

Parthian army, =6=, 153.

Pascal and Henry James, =6=, 122.

Passamagamet Falls, =3=, 51; "warping up," 53; 84.

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.

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 Pellico, Silvio, =6=, 53.

Penacook, now Concord (N. H.), founding of, =1=, 322.

Penance, people of Concord doing, =2=, 4.

Penhallow, Samuel, History, quoted, =4=, 235.

Penna, how pronounced, =6=, 25.

Penobscot County, =3=, 73.

Penobscot Indians, living in cotton tents, =2=, 31; sociability of, Penobscot River, the, =3=, 3, 5, 6; Indian islands in the, 7; 17, 18, between Moosehead and Chesuncook Lakes, described, 117; 145, 148; meaning of the word, 157, 158, 161 166, 176, 193, 202; West Branch of, Pepin Lake.

Perfection, artist of Kouroo who strove after, =2=, 359.

Petrel, the storm, =4=, 114.

Pfeiffer, Mme. Ida, quoted, =2=, 25.

Phar-ra-oh (noise of locusts), =6=, 90.

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=, Philosophy, Asiatic, =1=, 140, 141; loftiness of the Oriental, 142, Phoebe, the, =5=, 112.

Phoebus Apollo, =6=, 44.

Phosphorescent wood, =3=, 199-201.

Physician, priest and, =1=, 272.

Pies, no, in Quebec, =5=, 86.

Pilgrims, arrival of the, =4=, 251-257.

Pilgrims, verse, =5=, 413.

Pilgrims, Canterbury, =6=, 383.

Pillsbury, Parker, =6=, 378-380.

Pindar, Translations from, =5=, 375.

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 Deadwater, =3=, 121.

Pine Stream Falls, =3=, 136, 216.

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.

Pismire, and his hillock, =6=, 218.

Plain and mountain, life of the, =5=, 151.

PLAINS OF NAUSET, THE, =4=, 31-56.

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.

PLEA FOR JOHN BROWN, A, =4=, 409-440.

Pleasant Cove, in Cohasset, =4=, 18.

Pleasant Meadow, adjunct to Baker Farm, =2=, 225.

Pliny, the Elder, quoted, =5=, 292.

Plover, the piping of, =4=, 71; the, =5=, 112.

Plum, beach, =5=, 201.

Plutarch, quoted, =1=, 183.

"Ply the oars! away! away!" verse, =1=, 1, 88.

380.

Plymouth Church, =6=, 297.

Pockwockomus Lake, =3=, 50.

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 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.

Polaris, =6=, 362.

Pole, stirring up with, =6=, 311.

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 359.

Political conditions and news, =1=, 133.

Politicians, country, =3=, 9.

Poluphloisboios Thalassa, the Rev., =4=, 67.

Polygamy, =6=, 302.

Polygonum, =1=, 18.

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.

Poor, houses of the, =2=, 37, 38.

"Poor bird! destined to lead thy life," verse, =5=, 411.

Portage, a rough, =3=, 33; round Ambejijis Falls, 51.

Post-office, easily dispensed with, =2=, 104; the domestic, =4=, 24.

Potherie, quoted, =5=, 52.

Poverty, verse, =5=, 412.

Practicalness, the triviality of, =1=, 145.

Prairie River, Musketaquid or, =5=, 115.

Prayer, verse, =5=, 418.

Precipice for suicides, =6=, 149.

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 (Mass.), walking to, =4=, 31, 57, 58; Bank, T. suspected of robbing, 176, 177; approach to, 193; described, 195-197; fish, 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.

Quarterly of the Transcendentalists, =6=, 120; its fame in England, 156, note.

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.

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.

Rainbow, standing in light of, =2=, 224; in the Falls of the 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.

Realometer, not Nilometer, but a, =2=, 109.

Reformers, =1=, 130; objection to, 118.

Reforms in mechanics and ethics, =4=, 281-286.

Rent, annual tax that would buy a village of wigwams, =2=, 33.

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.

Return of Spring, verse, =5=, 109.

Review, of Carlyle by Emerson, =6=, 94, 101; of Emerson in Revue des Deux Mondes, 157.

Rice, story of the mountaineer, =1=, 212-220.

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, 265; plans trip abroad, 333; conversion of, 393.

Ricketson, Walton, sculptor, =6=, xiii, 263, 485.

Ripley, George, =6=, 404.

Ripogenus Portage, =3=, 80.

River, the flow of a, =5=, 178.

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.

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.

Russell Stream, =3=, 104.

"Rut," the, a sound before a change of wind, =4=, 97, 98.

Rynders, =6=, 122.

Sabbatia chloroides, =6=, 264.

Sadi of Shiraz, Sheik, quoted, =2=, 87.

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. Helen's Island (Montreal), =5=, 11.

St. John, the wrecked brig, =4=, 6.

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," verse, =1=, 375.

Salmon River, =3=, 19.

Salt, as manufactured by Captain John Sears, =4=, 27, 28; works, 218, 219.

Salutations, Canadian, =5=, 47.

his Memoir of Alcott cited, 61, note, 237, note, 252, note, 345; 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.

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.

Sanjay, quoted, =1=, 147.

Sap of sugar maple, =6=, 278, 279.

Sarah, Aunt (Dunbar), =6=, 5.

Sardanapalus, at best houses traveler considered a, =2=, 40.

Satire, poetry and, =1=, 328-330.

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.

Schoodic Lake, =3=, 256.

School, the _uncommon_, =2=, 122; question, the, among Indians, =3=, 323, 324.

Schooner, origin of word, =4=, 199.

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, Sears, Captain John, and salt manufacture, =4=, 27, 28.

Seashore, verses, =6=, xi; walks, 312, 328, 457.

Sebago Lake, =6=, 38.

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.

Sensuality, in eating and other appetites, =2=, 241-246; =6=, 204, 216, 295.

Serenade, like the music of the cow, =2=, 137.

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.

Shad Pond, or Noliseemack, =3=, 29, 30, 86.

Shawmut (Boston), =6=, 16.

Sheep, alarm of a flock of, =1=, 317.

Shelburne Falls, =1=, 261.

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.

Shingles of thought, whittling, =2=, 297.

SHIPWRECK, THE, =4=, 3-18.

Shirts, our liber, or true bark, =2=, 26.

Sign language, =5=, 61.

Signals, old clothes as, =4=, 22.

Sillery (Que.), =5=, 22.

Silliman, Benjamin, quoted, =5=, 98.

Simpkins, the Rev. John, quoted, =4=, 30.

Sims case, the, =4=, 390, 391.

"Since that first 'Away! Away!'" verse, =1=, 200.

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 SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, =4=, 388-408.

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.

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.

Snow, walking in the, =2=, 292; =5=, 181, 182; not recognized in Snow, the Great, =2=, 132, 142, 292; dating from, 280.

Snowberry, creeping, used as tea, =3=, 227.

Snowbird, the, =5=, 109.

Soapwort gentian, the, =1=, 18.

Society, commonly too cheap, =2=, 151; health not to be found in, =5=, of, 213, 274.

Society Islanders, gods of, =1=, 55, 66.

Society of Natural History, =6=, 188, 189.

Solomon, quoted, =5=, 291.

"Some tumultuous little rill," verse, =1=, 62.

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.

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.

Sowadnehunk Deadwater, =3=, 58.

Sowadnehunk River, the, =3=, 31, 79.

Spain, specimen news from, =2=, 105.

Sparrow, the first, of spring, =2=, 342.

Sparrow, the rush, =6=, 23.

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.