GENERAL INDEX (continued 2)

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.

The Riverside Press H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS