Chapter D: D.'s and chickadee-dees, =4=, 469 (1)

Dead body on the shore, a, =4=, 107, 108.

De Bry's _Collectio Peregrinationum_, =3=, 149.

Debt, getting in and out of, =2=, 7.

Decalogue, for whom made, =6=, 167.

Deep Cove, =3=, 45, 84.

Deer, =3=, 154.

Deer Island, =3=, 100, 183, 185, 188.

Delay, verse, =5=, 418.

Delay, in life, =6=, 196; in dying, 350.

Demons, =6=, 91, 243, 267, 333.

De Monts, Sieur, quoted, =1=, 42; Champlain and, =4=, 228.

Dennis (Mass.), =4=, 22; described, 25, 26.

Departure, The, verse, =5=, 414.

Desperation, mass of men lead lives of quiet, =2=, 8, 9.

Destiny, =6=, 44; our own work, 361.

Devil, =6=, 188, 220; the printer's, 322.

Dew of sixpences, =6=, 44.

"Dial," quarterly magazine, =6=, 38, 58-63, 78, 84, 87, 94, 108, 113-117, 125, 156, 158.

Dialect, abominable, =6=, 63.

Dialogue between Hermit and Poet, =2=, 247-249.

"Die and be buried who will," verse, =3=, 90.

Digby, Sir Kenelm, quoted, =2=, 179.

Ding Dong, verse, =5=, 417.

Diogenes, =6=, x.

Diploma, =6=, 138.

Dippers, a brood of, =3=, 184.

Discipline, =6=, 212, 243.

Discontented, speaking mainly to the, =2=, 17, 18.

Discovery, inner, =1=, 409.

Dissipation, not allied to love, =6=, 206; to be shunned by T., =6=, 313.

Divinity in man! Look at the teamster, =2=, 8.

Doane, Heman, verses by, on Thomas Prince's pear tree, =4=, 44, 45.

Doane, John, =4=, 45.

Dobson, the criminal, and Henry James, =6=, 346, 347.

Doctrine of Sorrow, =6=, 168; of Happiness, 173, 174; of letting alone, 177, 178.

Dog, in the woods, a village Bose, =2=, 257; a troublesome, =3=, 177; at the churn, a, =4=, 285.

Dog-barking, =1=, 40.

Dogmas, =6=, 346.

Dogs on the seashore, =4=, 185, 186; in harness, =5=, 30.

Doing and Being, =6=, 221, 230.

Doing-good, a crowded profession, =2=, 81.

"Dong, sounds the brass in the East," verse, =1=, 50.

Donne, Dr. John, quoted, =1=, 315, 356.

Double Top Mountain, =3=, 49.

Douglass, Frederick, Wendell Phillips on, =4=, 313.

Dracut (Mass.), =1=, 81.

Drake, Sir Francis, quoted, =5=, 325.

Dream of fishing, a, =3=, 61.

Dreams, =1=, 119, 315; =6=, 216.

Dress, of Cholmondeley, =6=, 342; of the Quakers, 97, 288; of T., 226.

Driftwood, Cape Cod and Greenland, =4=, 59-61.

Drosera, =6=, 310.

Du Chaillu, =6=, 382.

Drum, sound of a, by night, =1=, 181.

Drummond of Hawthornden, William, quoted, =2=, 219.

Dubartas, quoted, translation of Sylvester, =5=, 328, 329.

Ducks, on Walden Pond, =2=, 262.

Dug-out houses of American colonists, =2=, 42, 43.

Duke of Newcastle, and Prince of Wales, =6=, 372.

Dunbar, Rev. Asa (H. U. 1767), T.'s grandfather, =6=, 7.

Dunbar, Charles (uncle of T.), =6=, 5, 106.

Dunbar, Louisa, =6=, 99.

Dunbar, Mary, =6=, 12, note.

Dundees, a nickname, =6=, 14, 16.

Dunstable (Mass.), =1=, 64, 114, 123, 124, 174, 175, 177, 208, 227; History of, 175; quoted, 113, 126.

Durkee, Dr., a naturalist, =6=, 310, 327.

Dustan, Hannah, escape with nurse and child from Indians, =1=, 341-345.

Duties, =6=, 162, 167, 222, 223, 229.

Duty, sense of, =6=, 196.

Duxbury (Mass.), =6=, 301 note.

Dwelling-house, what not to make it, =2=, 31.

Dwight, John S., =6=, 404.

Dwight, Timothy, quoted, =4=, 212, 225.

Dying, real, =4=, 434, 435.

"Each summer sound," verse, =5=, 112.

Eagle-Beak, =6=, 15, note, 16.

Eagle Lake, =3=, 101, 161; road, 261.

Eagleswood, =6=, 286-291.

Earth, probing of, =6=, 194.

EAST BRANCH, THE ALLEGASH AND, =3=, 174-327.

East Branch, mouth of the, =3=, 19; 23, 161, 175, 176, 249, 256, 257, 268; Hunt's house on the, 269, 270, 273, 274, 288, 289, 298, 312, 315, 316.

East Harbor Village, in Truro, =4=, 137.

East Main, Labrador and, health in the words, =5=, 104.

Easterbrooks Country, =5=, 299, 303.

"Easter Brooks," =6=, 106.

Eastern Mountain anchored, =6=, 321.

Eastham (Mass.), the history of, =4=, 43-56; ministers of, 45-55; Table-Lands of, 62; the Pilgrims, 256.

Echo, in nature, =6=, 176, 177.

"Echoes of Harper's Ferry," =6=, 359.

ECONOMY, =2=, 3-89.

Edda, the Prose, quoted, =5=, 291.

Edith, the Saxon (daughter of Emerson), =6=, 113.

Education, tuition bills pay for the least valuable part of, =2=, 55, 56.

Eel, the common, the Lamprey, =1=, 31.

Eel River, =3=, 256.

Eggs, a master in cooking, =5=, 61, 62.

Egotism in writers, =2=, 3, 4.

Election-birds, =1=, 56.

Elegy in a Country Churchyard, =3=, 19, quoted, 19.

Eliot, John, =1=, 82.

Elm, the, =5=, 263, 264, 276.

Eloquence a transient thing, =2=, 113.

Elysian life, summer makes possible, =2=, 15.

Elysium, translation, =5=, 375.

Emerson, Charles Chauncy (H. U. 1828), his Notes from the Journal of a Scholar, =6=, 94.

Emerson, Charles (H. U. 1863), =6=, 24, note.

Emerson, Edith (Mrs. W. H. Forbes), =6=, 51, 54, 55, 103, 136, 145, 157.

Emerson, Edward Waldo (H. U. 1866), =6=, 136, 145, 152, 157.

Emerson, Ellen Tucker, =6=, 51, 53, 113, 136, 142, 145, 150, 153, 157.

Emerson, Haven (son of William), =6=, 78.

Emerson, George B., quoted, =5=, 200.

Emerson, Miss Mary Moody (aunt of R. W. E.), =6=, 269, 345, note.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (H. U. 1821), quoted =1=, 3, 14, 103, 104, 317; Carlyle compared with, =4=, 345, 346; =6=, vii, ix, 6, 10, note, 17, note, 48, 120, 125, 132, 151, 155, 157, 183, 190, 229, 236, 238, 251, 252, note, 253, 269, 322, 328, 337, note, 345, 346, 358, 359, 366, 367; children of, 51, 53-55, 136, 142, 145, 152, 153, 157; and Alcott, 63, 80, 83, 84, note, 136, 322, 328, 346; and Charles Lane, 62, 124, 125; and the "Dial," 58-63, 75, 78, 84, 94, 113-115; letters from, 48, 49, 58, 78, 94, 102, note, 104, 120, 125, 142, 155; letters to (from Thoreau), 50-58, 59-64, 78-84, 92-95, 101-103, 107, 108, 113-116, 135-155, 157, 169; quoted, 22, 115, 229, 237, note, 286, 290.

Emerson, Mrs. R. W. (Lidian Jackson, of Plymouth), =6=, 35, 42, note, 46, 53, 55, 64, 75, 95, 103, 135, 136, 152, 157; letter from, 64, 65; letters to, 75-78, 87-89, 112, 113.

Emerson, Madam Ruth (mother of William, Ralph, and Charles), =6=, 54, 78, 95.

Emerson, Waldo (son of R. W. E.), =6=, 22, 35, 42; death of, 22.

Emerson, William (H. U. 1818), of Staten Island, =6=, 50, 83, 98, 104.

Emersonian influences, =6=, 10, 49.

Employment, =6=, 15, 35, 39, 83, 107, 135, 181, 221, 222, 267, 315.

End of Nature's creatures, the, =1=, 236.

Enfield (Me.), =3=, 9.

England, last news from, =2=, 105; home of ancestors, =6=, 5, note, Emerson in, 124, 125, 148, 150, 154, 155.

English and French in the New World, =5=, 66, 67.

Englishmen, =6=, 50, 110, 125, 162, 235-238, 383, note.

Entomology, the study of, =5=, 107, 108; =6=, 90, 309, 310, 327, 328.

Epidermis, our outside clothes, =2=, 26.

Epigrams of Thoreau, =6=, 20, 26, 28, 41, 52, 56, 57, 60, 66, 67, 69, 76, 77, 83, 88, 93, 94, 118, 149, 156, 160, 161, 163, 173, 176, 178, 186, 199, 200, 201, 208.

Epistles of Thoreau, =6=, xii; Latin and English, 27-32; take the place of lectures, 192.

Epitaphs, =1=, 177, 178.

Epitome of the year, the day, =2=, 332.

Errington, Miss, a teacher, =6=, 73, 86.

Eternal life, =6=, 160, 161, 164, 173, 174, 194, 225.

Eternity, =6=, 178, 179, 204, 260, 261.

Etesian winds, news simmers through men like, =2=, 186.

Ethnical Scriptures, =6=, 114, 117.

Etymologies, =6=, 33, 34, 243.

Etzler, J. H., review of The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, by, =4=, 280-305; quoted, 280, 281, 292-300; "Mechanical System," 286, 292, 300, 303; merits and faults of the books, 301-304; criticised, =6=, 102.

Evelyn, John, quoted, =2=, 10, 179; quoted, =5=, 310, 311.

Everett, Edward (H. U. 1811), =6=, 372.

Everlasting (life-everlasting), the pearly, =3=, 97.

Evil spirits, =6=, 208, 226.

_Ex Oriente Lux: ex Occidente Frux_, =5=, 221.

Exaggeration, the need of, =4=, 352, 353.

Excursions, in Concord, =6=, 16, 18, 28, 49, 50, 59, note, 121, 126, 146, 230, 245, 250, 261, 267, 280, 281, 309; elsewhere in Massachusetts, 191, 196, 233, 234, 237, 244, 245, 255, 263, 279; to Maine, 254, 309, 315, 322-327; to Monadnoc, 329, 332, 364, 368-372; to New Hampshire (White Mountains), 6, 330-336, 349; to New York and New Jersey, 68-73, 77-80, 82-86, 95-97, 107-110, 183, 286-291, 295-298; to the West and Northwest, 380, 383, 391; estimate of, =6=, 170, 171; reducing, 171, 182, 262.

Expenses, farm, =2=, 60, 61; outgo and income, bean-field, 179-181. _See_ Cost.

Experiences, the paucity of men's, =5=, 241, 242.

Exploration, of one's self, =2=, 353-355.

Extemporaneous living, =1=, 332.

_Extra Vagance_, depends on how you are yarded, =2=, 357.

Extravagance in living, =6=, 213, 214, 317-319, 348.

Eyes, movement of the, =1=, 80, the sight of different men's, =5=, 285-288; and insight, =6=, 161, 162.

Fable, the universal appeal of, =1=, 58; the Christian, 67.

"Fabulate and paddle in the social slush," =6=, 230.

Face, imaginary formation by thawing of the, =2=, 339, 340.

Factory system, not best mode of supplying clothing, =2=, 29.

Failure or success, =6=, 188, 225.

Faineancy, =6=, 230.

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

Fair Haven, a canal-boat on, =1=, 224; =2=, 205, 219, 225, 274, 300, 307, 330; huckleberries on hill, 190, 192; ledges, 308; late ice on pond, 335; =6=, 28, 30, 50, 116, 231.

Faith, =6=, 47, 57, 167, 169, 226; phases of, 56, 57, 81, 112, 118, 159, 173, 174, 178, 214, 215, 224, 242, 243, 379.

Fall. _See_ Autumn.

Fall of the Leaf, the verse, =5=, 407.

Fallen Leaves, =5=, 264-270.

Falls, a drug of, =5=, 58.

Fama Marcelli, =6=, viii.

Fame, translation, =5=, 378.

Fame, to be distrusted, =4=, 403; =6=, vii, 66, 67, 92, 93.

"Fame cannot tempt the bard," verse, =6=, viii.

Family ancestry, =6=, 3, 7, 11, 104; demon of sleep, 91, 106.

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

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

Farmer, visits from a long-headed, =2=, 294.

Farmers, interesting in proportion as they are poor, =2=, 218.

Farms in Concord, =6=, 256, note; in Staten Island, 86, 95; at Chappaqua, 297.

Farwell of Dunstable, =1=, 174-176, 208.

Fashion, worship of, =2=, 28.

Fate, what a man thinks of himself, his, =2=, 8; =6=, 39, 77, 112, 361; the Fates, 74, 108, 149.

Father Hecker, =6=, 122, 123, 404, 405, 408.

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

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

Fellowship, =6=, 268.

Feminine traits, =6=, 198, 201.

Fences in Truro, =4=, 138, 139.

Fenda, wife of "Sippio Brister," =2=, 284.

Fenwick, Bishop, =3=, 323.

Field, John, an Irishman, story of, =2=, 226.

Finch, =6=, 75.

Fine art, no place for a work of, =2=, 41, 42.

Fire, purification by, =2=, 75; "my housekeeper," 279; man and, 280; an alarm of, 285; a camp, =3=, 43, 115, 116; =6=, 28, 30, 294, 333, 334, 373; of driftwood, 268; on Mt. Washington, 336; on Monadnoc, 369.

Fire Island, =6=, 183, 185.

Fire-weed, =3=, 95, 282.

Fish, A Religious, newspaper clipping, =4=, 116; uses of, in Provincetown, 212-215; spearing, =5=, 119, 121-123. _See_ Bream, Eel, Pickerel, Pout, Shiner.

Fisher, the pickerel, =5=, 180, 181.

Fisherman, the, =1=, 21; Account Current of a, 33.

Fishes, the nature of, =1=, 23; schools of, in Walden Pond, =2=, 210, 211; of thought, 297; driven ashore by storm, =4=, 143-147; described in Massachusetts Report, =5=, 118.

Fish-hawk, the, =1=, 205; =5=, 110.

Fishing, with silent man, =2=, 192; at night, 194; alone detains citizens at Walden Pond, 235, 236; impossible to T. without loss of self-respect, 236, 237; in winter, 313, 314; =3=, 58; in the Caucomgomoc, 226, 227; for bass, =4=, 117; mackerel, 179-184, 189, 190.

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

Fitchburg (Mass.), going to, =2=, 59; =5=, 3; =6=, 292, 302.

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

Fitzwilliam (N. H.), =5=, 4.

Five Islands, the, =3=, 11, 31, 87, 320.

Flagg, Wilson, =6=, 311.

Flat, the weak person, =4=, 278.

Flea, deserts made by bite of a, =1=, 209.

Flesh and bones, =6=, 110.

Fletcher, Giles, quoted, =1=, 199, 202.

Fletcher, Phineas, quoted, =1=, 414 ("By them went Fido").

Flint's Pond, =2=, 201, 223, 330-333; or Sandy, in Lincoln, 216-219; covered with snow, like Baffin's Bay, 299.

Floating in a skiff, =1=, 48.

Flowers, autumn, =1=, 377.

Fog, early morning, =1=, 188, 200, 201; picturesque effect of, 201, 202; =6=, 257, 329, 334, 335. _See_ Clouds, Haze, Mist.

Follen, Dr. Charles, =6=, 30.

Food, a necessary of life, =2=, 13; the fuel of man's body, 14; general consideration of, 60-72; objections to animal, 237; desirability of simple, 238-241; =6=, 164, 165, 175, 216, 218.

Football, spiritual, =6=, 217.

Foreign country, quickly in a, =5=, 31.

Forests, nations preserved by, =5=, 229.

FORMER INHABITANTS, AND WINTER VISITORS, =2=, 282-298.

Fortifications, ancient and modern, =5=, 77, 78.

Fort Sumter, =6=, 378, 379.

Fourier, communities of, =6=, 81, 96, 97, 104, 318.

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

Fox, shooting a, =2=, 307; starting up a, =4=, 148; the, =5=, 117.

Fox Island, =1=, 43.

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

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

Framingham (Mass.), =1=, 4, 53.

Franconia (N. H.), =1=, 89.

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

Fredericton (N. B.), =3=, 16.

Freedom, of one's time, =4=, 460, 461; advantages of, =6=, 8, 12, 33, 34; for the scholar, 171, 174, 175.

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

Free-Soilers, =6=, 196.

Frémont, J. C., =6=, 362.

French, coin found on beach at Wellfleet, =4=, 161; explorers in and about New England, 227-242; difficulties in talking, =5=, 35-37, 47; strange, 50; pure, 52; in the New World, English and, 66-68; in Canada, 81, 82; the, spoken in Quebec streets, 86, 87.

Freshet, on the Merrimack, =1=, 379; the Great, =3=, 58.

Fresh-Water or River Wolf, =1=, 29.

FRIDAY, =1=, 356-420.

Friend, office of a, =6=, 44, 53, 80, 93, 94, 135.

Friends, =1=, 275-307; =6=, 56, 187, 206; their uses, 56, 57; estimate of, 186, 187; and followers, 183-464.

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

Friendship, offense against, =6=, 56-58; advantages of, =6=, 57, 93, 94, 171, 187, 203; and love, 203, 302; verses on, 38, 329, note; accord in, 57, 201, 260, 261.

Fringilla, _Fring. Melod._, =6=, 23.

Frogs, _troonk_ of bull-, =2=, 139, 140. _See_ Toad.

Froissart, good place to read, =5=, 23.

Frontier houses, =3=, 144.

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

Frost, Rev. Barzillai (H. U. 1830), =6=, 10, note, 137.

Frost-smoke, =5=, 166.

Fruitlands (farm of Alcott and Lane), =6=, 64, 90, 122, 142, 155, 404.

Fruits, gathering autumn, =2=, 263.

Fruit trees, paucity of, in Cape towns, =4=, 34.

Fuel, a necessary of life, =2=, 13, 14; of man's body, food, 14.

Fugitive Slave Law, the, =4=, 388, 389, 401-403, 426.

Fuller, Rev. Arthur (H. U. 1843), =6=, 184.

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

Fuller, Margaret (Countess Ossoli), =6=, 39, 94, 107, 120, 183-186.

Fuller, Richard E. (H. U. 1844), =6=, 43, 45, 65.

Fuller, Thomas, quoted, =1=, 265, 414.

Fundy, Bay of, =3=, 254.

Funeral Bell, The, verse, =5=, 405.

Funeral processions, =6=, 146.

Fur Countries, inspiring neighborhood of the, =5=, 105.

"_Furdustrandas_," =4=, 187, 191.

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

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

Game, woodland, =6=, 16, 336, 339.

Ganges, =6=, 267.

Gardens, Emerson's, =6=, 35, 77, 135, 149, 150; Thoreau's, 86, 355.

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

Garrison, W. L., =6=, 255.

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

Gazetteer, reading the, =1=, 92; quoted, 206, 207, 259, 260, 269-271; =4=, 25, 28.

Geese, first flock of, =5=, 110.

Genius, order in the development of, =1=, 329; the Man of, 350; a man and his, 362; of the mountain, =6=, 369; of the storm, 369.

Gerard, the English herbalist, quoted, =4=, 206.

Gerardia, purpurea (purple gerardia), =1=, 18.

Gesner, Konrad, von, quoted, =1=, 389; =5=, 318.

Gifts, =6=, 22.

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, =4=, 123.

Gilpin, William, quoted, =2=, 276, 317; =4=, 119; =6=, 239, 263, 264.

God, T.'s idea of, =1=, 65, 66; men's impertinent knowledge of, 70, 71; the personality of, 79; clothes fit to worship, in, =2=, 25; =6=, 159, 163, 174, 188, 259; ask to see, 164; city of, 164; 223; not an ash man, 244; reigns, 178, 317.

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

Goethe, =1=, 347-350; quoted, 351-353; =6=, 62, 168, 301.

Goff's Falls, =1=, 251.

Goffstown (N. H.), =1=, 205, 260, 271, 274.

Gold craze, California and Australia, =4=, 463-467.

Goldenrod, =3=, 97.

Good deeds, =6=, 171.

Good Genius, advice of T.'s, =2=, 230.

Good and Wise, verse, =6=, 147.

Goodwin, Prof. William Watson (H. U. 1851), =6=, 103.

Gookin, Daniel, quoted, =1=, 82, 114, 175, 176, 267; =2=, 32.

Goose, stray, cackling like spirit of the fog, =2=, 46; honking of, 300, 345. _See_ Geese.

Goose Pond, =2=, 219; muskrats in, 299.

Gorilla, =6=, 382.

Goshawk, American, =6=, 188, 189.

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

Gosse, P. A., Canadian Naturalist, =5=, 91.

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

Government, the best, =4=, 356; the American, 356-360; resistance to, 360-362, 365-381; T. and the, 381-387; good and bad, 405; a representative, 429; the small business of, 478-480; too much, =5=, 82, 83; =6=, 154, 359, 378, 379.

Governor, a Massachusetts, =4=, 389, 390.

Gower, John, quoted, =1=, 57, 121.

Grampus Rock, in Cohasset, =4=, 7, 11.

Grand Falls of the Penobscot, =3=, 31; portage to avoid the, 32.

Grand Lake, =3=, 268; Indian name for, 295; 297, 307.

Grand Portage, the, =3=, 80.

Grange Bluff, =6=, 385.

Grape Island, =1=, 43.

Grass-ground River, =1=, 3, 32.

Graves, Indian, =1=, 251.

Graveyard, a Cape Cod, =4=, 148.

Graveyards, monuments and, =1=, 177.

Great Brook, =5=, 137.

Great Fields, the, =5=, 257.

"Great God! I ask thee for no meaner pelf," verse, =5=, 418.

Great Meadows, =1=, 3, 16.

Great Quitticus, =6=, 264.

Great River, the, or St. Lawrence, =5=, 89, 90, 91, 92.

Greece, verse, =5=, 404.

Greece, The Freedom of, translation, =5=, 390.

"Greece, who am I that should remember thee," verse, =1=, 54.

Greeley, Horace, =6=, 68, 96, 101, 104, 158, 169-172, 291, 297, 407.

Green Mountains, the, =5=, 6, 100, 145, 147.

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

Greene, Calvin H., =6=, 392, 403, 409; letters to, 408-412.

Greenland, driftwood in, =4=, 60.

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

Greenville (Me.), =3=, 99, 101, 188, 194, 209.

Grey, Mrs., =6=, 82.

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

Grief, cause of, =6=, 41, 47, 48, 75, 89, 118, 168; remedy for, 41, 43, 48.

Griffith's Falls, =1=, 257.

Grimké sisters, =6=, 283, 288.

Grippling for apples, =5=, 309.

Groton (Mass.), =1=, 169; =5=, 139, 152.

Ground-nuts, the, =2=, 263-265.

Gulls, methods of catching, =4=, 71, 72; =5=, 110.

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

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

Guyot, Arnold, =5=, 93; quoted, 93, 94, 220, 221.

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

HABITS, ill, remedy for, =6=, 148, 149, 208, 226, 227.

Hafiz, quoted, =1=, 415.

Hale, Rev. Edward Everett (H. U. 1839), =6=, 307.

Hale, Nathan (H. U. 1838), =6=, 83, note.

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

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

Hamlet, Fechter's, =6=, 382.

Hampstead (N. H.), =1=, 185, 202.

Hard times, =6=, 317, 318.

Hare, the, =2=, 309, 310.

Harebell, the, =1=, 92.

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

Harper & Brothers, =6=, 105.

Harrison and Tyler, =6=, 371.

Harvard (Mass.), =5=, 151, 152; =6=, 45, 280.

Harvard College, =6=, 4, 10, 65, 104, 138, 237, 252.

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

Hasty, Captain, =6=, 184.

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

Hate, =6=, 202; and love, 93, 199, 200.

Haverhill (Mass.), =1=, 87, 89, 185, 202; historian of, quoted, 322; 342.

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

Hawk, fish, =5=, 110.

Hawk, watching a, =2=, 348, 349. _See_ Nighthawk.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, =6=, vii, 42, note, 51, 93, 107, 120, 364.

Hawthorne, Sophia, =6=, 45.

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

Haystack, the, =1=, 86.

Haze, =1=, 229. _See_ Fog.

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

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

Headley, Henry, =6=, 65.

Hearts, =6=, 200, 201, 294.

Heathenish, =6=, 191, 210.

Heaven, =1=, 405-409; =6=, 87, 163, 179, 196, 220, 284; admission to, 164, 220, 223.

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

Hecker, Isaac, =6=, 122, 123; letters to, 405, 407.

Hedgehog, shooting a, =3=, 130.

Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma, =1=, 153.

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

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

Henry, Alexander, Adventures of, =1=, 228, 230, 231; Wawatam's friendship with, 291.

Hens, =6=, 38, 63, 273.

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

Heraud, John A., =6=, 61.

Herbert, George, =6=, 113, 377.

Hercules, labors of, trifling compared with those of T.'s neighbors, =2=, 5; =6=, 226, 344.

Hercules names the Hill of Kronos, translation, =5=, 377.

Hercules' Prayer concerning Ajax, son of Telamon, translation, =5=, 390.

Herds, the keepers of men, =2=, 62.

Hermit. _See_ Dialogue.

Hermitage, Walden, =6=, 154.

Hermit-life, =6=, 135, 158.

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

Heron, =1=, 416.

Heron Lake, =3=, 254, 255; =6=, 325.

Herrick, Robert, =5=, 298.

Herring River, =4=, 80.

Hesiod, quoted, =1=, 64.

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

Hibiscus, =1=, 19.

Hickory, the, =5=, 264, 265.

Hide, stretching a, =3=, 147, 148; sale of a moose, 152.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (H. U. 1841), =6=, 189, 190, 260, 323-327.

HIGHER LAWS, =2=, 232-246.

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

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

Highlanders in Quebec, =5=, 25-27, 28, 29, 79.

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

Hilton's clearing, =3=, 105.

Hindoos, =6=, 89, 271, 299, 300.

Hippocrates, on cutting the nails, =2=, 10, 11.

"His steady sails he never furls," verse, =5=, 109.

History, the reading and the antiquity of, =1=, 161-163; reading, =3=, 87.

Hoar family, =6=, 15, note, 321.

Hoar-frost, =5=, 126, 127.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood (H. U. 1835), =6=, 15, 75, 78, 395.

Hoar, Edward Sherman (H. U. 1844), =6=, 75, 313, 330, 332-336.

Hoar, Elizabeth, =6=, 51, 75, 93, 116.

Hoar, George Frisbie (H. U. 1846), =6=, 15, note, 100.

Hoar, Samuel (H. U. 1802), =6=, 15, note, 351.

Hobble-bush, wayfarer's tree or, =3=, 96.

Hoboken (N.J.), =6=, 109.

Hochelaga, =5=, 89, 97, 99.

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

Hodnet, England, =6=, 236, 237, note, 249, 272, note.

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

Hog, the, =6=, 222, 328.

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

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

Home, =6=, ix, 50, 63; affection of T. for, 99, 262.

Homer, =1=, 97, 394; Iliad, =2=, 111; never yet printed in English, 115; quoted, 160; =5=, 181; =6=, 92, 197, 239, 291.

Hontan, French explorer, =6=, 389.

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

Hooksett (N. H.), =1=, 225, 251, 260, 273, 274, 308, 309, 335; Pinnacle, 318; Falls, 322.

Hoosac Mountain, T.'s ascent of, =1=, 189-200.

Hoosac Mountains, =5=, 147.

Hop, culture of the, =5=, 136, 137.

Hope, =6=, 20.

Hopeful, Sachem (John Thoreau), =6=, 13, 35.

Hopkinton (Mass.), =1=, 4, 32.

Horace, quoted, =6=, 27, 30.

Horns, uses for deer's, =3=, 97, 98.

Hornstone, =3=, 194.

Horses, to hang clothes on, wooden, =2=, 23, 24; men's work for, =4=, 286; Canadian, =5=, 34; =6=, 136, 142, 153, 294, 321, 334, 340.

"Horses have the mark," verse, =1=, 243.

Horse-race, =6=, 286, 293.

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

_Hortus siccus_, nature in winter a, =5=, 179.

Hosmer, Edmund (the "farmer-man"), =6=, 93, 137, 154, 257, 261, 265, 270.

Hosmer, Solon, =6=, 257.

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

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

Hottentots and Ruskin, =6=, 319.

Houlton (Me.), road, the, =3=, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13.

Hounds hunting woods in winter, =2=, 305-309.

House, every spot possible site for a, =2=, 90; the ideal, 266-271; the perfect, =5=, 153.

Household, of Emerson, =6=, 35, 53, 54, 64, 135, 136, 142, 147, 152; of the Dunbars and Thoreaus, 4-7, 24, 27-32, 99, 104-106, 351.

House-raising at Walden Pond, =2=, 49, 50.

Houses, superfluities in our, =2=, 39; Canadian, =5=, 44, 59; American compared with Canadian, 100; lived in by Thoreau, =6=, 4-7, 24, 58, 141, 143, 144, 148-150; 369.

HOUSE-WARMING, =2=, 263-281.

Housework, a pleasant pastime, =2=, 125.

Howitt, William, =4=, 465; quoted on Australian gold-diggings, 467; =6=, 84, 235.

Huckleberries never reach Boston, =2=, 192.

Hudson (N. H.), =1=, 151, 152, 153, 169.

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

Hudson River, =6=, 70, 109, 392.

Huguenots of Staten Island, =1=, 190.

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

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

Human nature, =6=, 8, 9, 37, 47, 96, 110, 160, 163, 166, 180, 196, 203, 208, 209.

Humboldt, Alexander von, quoted, =4=, 121; =5=, 92, 93.

Humor, the quality of, =4=, 335-337; T.'s sense of, =6=, xi, xii.

Hunt family, =6=, 106, 256, note.

Hunt House, the old, =5=, 201.

Hunter, a "gentlemanly," =3=, 178, 179; Indian, with hides, 231; enviable life of a, 269, 270.

Hunters, boys to be made first sportsmen, then, =2=, 234.

Hunting, the degradation of, =3=, 132-134.

Hut for shipwrecked sailors, =4=, 63, 74-78; in the woods, =6=, 58, 59, note, 125, 168.

Hyde, Tom, the tinker, quoted, =2=, 360, 361.

Hygeia, no worshiper of, =2=, 154.

Hypseus' Daughter Cyrene, translation, =5=, 383.

I, the first person, retained in this book, =2=, 3, 4.

"I am a parcel of vain strivings tied," verse, =1=, 410.

"I am bound, I am bound for a distant shore," verse, =1=, 2.

"I am the autumnal sun," verse, =1=, 404.

"I hearing get, who had but ears," verse, =1=, 392.

"I make ye an offer," verse, =1=, 69.

"I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind," verse, =1=, 2.

"I see the civil sun drying earth's tears," verse, =5=, 120.

"I've searched my faculties around," verse, =5=, 418.

"I wish to sing the Atridæ," verse, =1=, 240.

Ice, looking through the, on Walden Pond, =2=, 272; whooping of the, 301; cutting through, to get water, 312, 313; cutting on Walden Pond, 323-329; beauty of Walden, 327; booming of the, 333; =5=, 176; =6=, 206, 212, 250, 251, 273.

Iceberg, =6=, 335.

Ice formations in a river-bank, =5=, 128, 129.

Idle hours, =6=, 18, 47, 209, 254, 267.

"If I am poor," verse, =5=, 412.

"If thou wilt but stand by my ear," verse, =5=, 418.

"If with light head erect I sing," verse, =5=, 396.

Ignorance, Society for the Diffusion of Useful, =5=, 239.

Imagination, not exercised, =6=, 26; discussed by Ruskin, 319.

Imitations of charette-drivers, Yankee, =5=, 99.

Immigrants, =6=, 96, 110.

Immortality, =6=, 194, 225.

"In the East fames are won," verse, =4=, 346.

"In this roadstead I have ridden," verse, =5=, 414.

"In two years' time 't had thus," verse, =5=, 303.

"In vain I see the morning rise," verse, =1=, 366.

"Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell," verse, =6=, 202.

Independence, verse, =5=, 415.

India, books on, Cholmondeley's gift of, =6=, 270, note, 271.

Indian, crowding out of the, by whites, =1=, 53; civilizing the, 55; conversion of the, 82-85; capture of two Dunstable men, 174; attacks, letters to governor about expected, 232, 233; captivity, escape of Hannah Dustan and others from, 341-345; houses in Massachusetts Colony, =2=, 32, 33; extinction, =3=, 7; guides secured, 11; belief that river ran two ways, 35; words for some birds and animals, 108; camp, an, 146-159; language, 151; words for Maine waters, 155-157; houses at Oldtown, 161; relics, 166; speech, 187; singing, 198; methods of guiding, 204-206; manner of carrying canoes, 207, 208; inscription, an, 220; wardrobe, 249, 250; failure to understand avoidance of settlers, 258; medicines, 259; travel, 260, 261; as umpire, 267; skill in retracing steps, 277; relics and geographical names, 297; good manners, 300; devil (or cougar), the, 306; reticence and talkativeness, 318, 319; sickness, 319, 320; indifference, 326, habitation, signs of previous, =4=, 84, 85; =6=, 311, 315, 316, 336.

Indian Island, =3=, 92, 174, 326, 327.

Indian summer, =6=, 38, 340.

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

Infidelity, the real, =1=, 77.

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

Inherited property a misfortune, =2=, 5.

Injustice, =6=, 228.

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

Insect foes, =3=, 246.

Inspector of storms, self-appointed, =2=, 19, 20.

Inspiration, quatrain, =5=, 418.

Inspiration, verse, =5=, 396.

Institutions, the burden of, =1=, 135, 136.

Invertebrate Animals, report on quoted, =5=, 129.

Inward Morning, The, verse, =1=, 313.

Iolaus, and hydra's head, =2=, 5.

Ireland, Alexander, =6=, 155, 157.

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

Irishmen, =6=, 116, 149.

Islands, =1=, 257, 258; Clark's, =6=, 301, 328; Staten, xi, 65, 68, 117.

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

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

Italian discoverers, =4=, 234, 235.

Jackson, Dr. Charles T., =3=, 4, 10; quoted, regarding altitude of Ktaadn, 72; on Moosehead Lake, 104; sketches in Reports of, 120; quoted, regarding hornstone on Mount Kineo, 194, 195; =6=, 35, note, 144.

Jackson, Miss Lidian (Mrs. R. W. Emerson.) _See_ Emerson.

Jackson, Miss Lucy (Mrs. Brown), =6=, 35, note, 42, note, 49, 50, 113, 136, 329, note; letters to, 35-49.

Jaffrey (N. H.), =6=, 330.

Jail in Concord, =6=, 52.

Jamblichus, quoted, =1=, 184.

James, Henry, Sr., meets T., =6=, 68, 80; mentioned, 85, 101; his sons, 103, 122, 346, 347.

Jarvis, Dr. Edward (H. U. 1826), =6=, 21.

Jaundice, =6=, 118, 152.

Jays, arrival of the, =2=, 303, 304; =5=, 108, 199.

Jeremiah's Gutter, =4=, 36.

Jerusalem Village (Mass.), =4=, 16.

Jesuit Relations, quoted, =5=, 96.

Jesuits, and Indian torture, =2=, 83; early in New England, =4=, 232; Barracks, the, in Quebec, =5=, 24.

Jesus Christ, the effect of the story of, =1=, 67; prince of Reformers and Radicals, 142; liberalizing influence of, =2=, 120.

Joe Merry Lakes, the, =3=, 45.

Joe Merry Mountain, =3=, 38, 51, 218.

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

Johnson, Edward, quoted, =1=, 8; =2=, 42, 43.

Jones, Dr. S. A., =6=, 403.

Jones family, =6=, 12, note, 91, 104.

Jones, Sir William, =1=, 154.

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

Josselyn, John, =1=, 27, 29; quoted, =3=, 156, 164; =4=, 98; quoted, =5=, 2.

Judge and criminal, =6=, 227, 228.

Justice, the administration of, =4=, 395, 396.

Kalm, Travels in North America, quoted, =4=, 126, 201; =5=, 21, 30, 39, 65; on sea-plants near Quebec, 93.

Kalmiana. _See_ Nuphar.

Kane, Dr. E. K., =6=, 362.

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

Katepskonegan Lake, =3=, 50, 57.

Katepskonegan Stream, =3=, 50.

Kearsage, =1=, 86.

Keene (N. H.) Street, =5=, 4; heads like, 4.

Kelp, =4=, 67-70.

Kenduskeag, meaning of, =3=, 156.

Kennebec River, the, =3=, 5, 40, 103, 183, 188, 233, 272.

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

Khoung-tseu, =2=, 105.

Kieou-he-yu, =2=,105.

Killington Peak, =5=, 6.

Kineo, Mount, =3=, 101-103, 156, 183, 186, 189; Indian tradition of origin of, 190; hornstone on, 194; 196, 203, 260, 299; =6=, 325.

Kirby, William, and Spence, quoted, =2=, 237, 256.

Kirkland, Mrs. Caroline, =6=, 288.

Kittlybenders, let us not play at, =2=, 363.

Knife, an Indian, =3=, 156.

Knots of the Alcott arbor, =6=, 136, 137.

Knowledge, the slow growth of, =5=, 181; Society for the Diffusion of Useful, 239; true, 240.

Kossuth, the excitement about, =4=, 470, 471.

Kreeshna, teachings of, =1=, 144-146.

KTAADN, =3=, 3-90.

Ktaadn, Mount, =3=, 1; ascents of, 3-5; view of, 23; first view of, 36; 38; the flat summit of, 49; 58, 61; T.'s ascent of, 63-76; altitude of, 72; 96, 121, 136, 167, 215, 218, 249, 257, 260, 297, 312, 313; =6=, 132, 255.

LABOR, uses of, =6=, 63, 116, 170, 171, 221, 222; results of, 165, 166, 170, 171, 182, note.

Laborer, choosing occupation of a day, =2=, 77; falling in pond with many clothes on, 83.

Laboring man has no time to be anything but a machine, the, =2=, 6, 7.

Labrador and East Main, health in the words, =5=, 104.

Labrador tea, =6=, 327.

Ladies'-tresses, =1=, 18.

"Lady's Companion," a magazine, =6=, 107, 108.

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

Lake, the earth's eye, a, =2=, 206; country of New England, the, =3=, 40; a woodland, in winter, =5=, 174, 175.

Lake Champlain, Long Wharf to, =2=, 132; =5=, 6-8.

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

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

Lamentations, =6=, 41, 42, 179, 180, 213, 214, 226, 229.

Lamprey eel, =1=, 31; =6=, 127.

_Lampyris noctiluca_, =6=, 310, 327, 328.

Lancaster (Mass.), =1=, 169; =5=, 138, 139, 149.

Land and water, =6=, xi, 14, 69, 83, 267, 268, 301.

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

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

Lane, Charles (English reformer), =6=, 52, 58, 64, 90, 104, 125; writes for the "Dial," 59-63.

La Prairie (Que.), =5=, 11, 18, 99.

Lar, =6=, 67.

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

Lark, the, =5=, 109, 110.

LAST DAYS OF JOHN BROWN, THE, =4=, 441-450.

"Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy," verse, =1=, 276.

Latin, grammars, =6=, 25; epistle, 27-29; pronunciation, 25; writers mentioned or quoted, viii, xi, 27, 28.

Lawrence (Mass.), =1=, 89.

Laws, beautiful, =6=, 177; eternal, 173.

"Leach-hole" in Walden Pond, =2=, 322.

Lead, rain of, =5=, 26.

Leaf, resemblance of sand-formation to a, =2=, 338.

Leaves, fallen, =5=, 264-270; scarlet oak, 278-281.

Lectures, by T., =6=, 6, 145, 150, 154, 189-192, 232, 233, 244, 251, 276, 289, 303, 349.

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

Lee's Hill, =6=, 15, note; alias Nashawtuc or Naushawtuck, =6=, 15, 27, 30.

Lee-vites, a nickname, =6=, 15, note.

Legs, the, as compasses, =4=, 88.

Lescarbot, quoted, regarding abundance of fishes, =3=, 60; =4=, 240, 249.

"Let such pure hate still underprop," verse, =1=, 305.

_Leuciscus (argenteus, pulchellus)_, =6=, 127, 131.

Letters: From Louis Agassiz, =6=, 129. From A. B. Alcott, =6=, 397; to him, 282. From H. G. O. Blake, =6=, 158, 159; to him, 160, 164, 173, 174, 177, 179, 185, 194, 197, 209, 217, 221, 225, 229, 258, 292, 302, 307, 308, 314, 330, 343, 349, 358, 360, 364, 368, 383. From Myron B. Benton, =6=, 398; to him, 399. To Mrs. Lucy Cotton Brown, =6=, 35, 37, 40, 43, 46. From J. E. Cabot, =6=, 130, 131; to him, 126, 128, 155. From Ellery Channing, =6=, 121, 271. From Thomas Cholmondeley, =6=, 380; to him, 245. From R. W. Emerson, =6=, 49, 58, 83, note, 94, note, 102, 104, 120, 125, 142, 155; to him, 50, 54, 59, 62, 78, 80, 92, 101, 107, 113, 135, 142, 144, 148, 151, 157, 183. From Mrs. R. W. Emerson, =6=, 64; to her, 76, 87, 112. To Calvin H. Greene, =6=, 408-412. To Isaac Hecker, =6=, 405, 407. To T. W. Higginson, =6=, 189, 323. From Miss Elizabeth Hoar, =6=, 116. To Parker Pillsbury, =6=, 378. From James Richardson, =6=, 10, note. From Daniel Ricketson, =6=, 238, 246, 257; to him, 239, 240, 246, 261, 263, 266, 270, 273, 284, 285, 304, 311, 313, 337, 341, 350, 353, 376. To F. B. Sanborn, =6=, 249, 385. To Cynthia Thoreau, =6=, 68, 84, 89, 98, 104, 108. To Helen Thoreau, =6=, 12, 25, 27, 32, 74, 95, 117. To John Thoreau, Jr., =6=, 13, 19, 23. To Sophia Thoreau, =6=, 31, 71, 132, 193, 286, 363. From B. M. Watson, =6=, 190, 327; to him, 6, 191, 309, 327. To B. B. Wiley, =6=, 298, 300.

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

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

Liebig, J. F. von, quoted, 2, 14.

Life, the world and, =1=, 310-316; cares and labors of, =2=, 6, 7; an experiment, 10; students not to play or study, but to live, 56, 57; purposes of, 100, 101; one has imagined living the, 356; live your, however mean, 361; in us, like the water in the river, 366; emptiness of ordinary, =6=, 161, 162, 179, 209, 210, 213, 214, 230; eternal, 161, 164, 173, 174, 194, 225; facts of, 44, 162, 212; labyrinth of, 173; mean aspects of, 79, 82, 229; phenomena of, xi, xii, 40, 47, 199, 203, 204, 216, 221, 222, 268, 328; qualifications for practical, 7, 11, 34, 59, 135, 171; spiritual and material, 9, 88, 160, 214, 227.

LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE, =4=, 455-482.

Light. _See_ Moonlight and Sunset.

"Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird," verse, =2=, 279.

Lilac, growing by deserted houses, =2=, 290.

Lily, the yellow, =3=, 209, 291; roots, gathering, 309; roots, soup of, 317.

Lily Bay, =3=, 97, 99.

Limits of living, =2=, 7.

Lincoln, Abraham, =6=, 283, 378, 380.

Lincoln (Me.), =3=, 9, 85, 260, 319, 321, 322.

Lincoln (Mass.), =1=, 5; =2=, 95, 136, 173, 282; owls in woods of, 138, 139; Flint's Pond in, 216; chestnut woods of, 263; burying-ground, 284, 299; =5=, 282, 283.

Lining of beauty for houses, =2=, 44.

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

Litchfield (N. H.), =1=, 204, 206, 227.

Little Reading, =2=, 116.

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

Living, getting a, =4=, 457-462. _See_ Life.

Lobster Pond, =3=, 106, 210.

Lobster Stream, =3=, 105, 210.

Lockwood. _See_ F. J. Merriam.

Locusts, =3=, 254; =6=, 90.

Log house, a, =3=, 138.

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

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

London, =6=, 137, 155, 343, 362.

Londonderry (N. H.), =1=, 92, 268.

Loneliness, desirable, =2=, 147, 151, 152.

Long Pond, =6=, 264.

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

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

Longfellow, H. W., =6=, 101, 251, 345, note.

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

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

Loring, E. G., =4=, 389, 393, 394.

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

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

Loudon, John Claudius, quoted, =5=, 197, 200, 291, 292, 310.

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

Love, the power of, =4=, 304, 305; charms of, 198-200, 204, 205, 206, 208; corrupted, 199, 206, 208; potency of, 201, 203, 204; and marriage, 198-209, 302. _See_ Friendship.

"Love once among roses," verse, =1=, 244.

"Love walking swiftly," verse, =1=, 242.

"Lovely dove," verse, =1=, 241.

Lovewell, Captain, and his Indian fight, =1=, 123; John, father of, 168, 176; =3=, 245.

"Low-anchored cloud," verse, =1=, 201.

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

Lowell, James Russell (H. U. 1838), =6=, 61, 251, 345, 395.

Lowell (Mass.), =1=, 4, 31, 32, 39, 85, 87, 89, 115, 117, 225, 251, 264.

Lowell, Mrs., =6=, 24.

Lucretius, =6=, xi.

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

Lyceum, the, =1=, 102; =2=, 121, 122; =6=, 6, 49, 51, 52, 61, 115, 145, 150, 154, 275; at Salem, 191; at Worcester, 303.

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

Lyman, Benjamin Smith (H. U. 1855), =6=, 252.

Lynx, Canada, =6=, 355.

Lyttelton, Lord, =6=, 383.

Macaulay, Rev. Zachary, =6=, 272, note.

McCauslin, or "Uncle George," weather-bound at farm of, =3=, 23-29; good services as guide by, 40-42.

McCulloch's Geographical Dictionary, quoted, =5=, 49.

McGaw's Island, =1=, 245.

McKean, Henry Swasey (H. U. 1828), =6=, 109, 114, 122.

Mackerel, fishing for, =4=, 179-184, 189, 190; =6=, 229; fleet, the, 198, 261.

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

MacTavish, Simon, =5=, 98.

Mad River, =1=, 87.

Madawaska, the, =3=, 80; =6=, 323-326.

Mahabarat, =6=, 300.

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

Maine, mountainous region of, =3=, 4; intelligence of backwoodsmen in, 24; view of, 73; the forest of, 88; =6=, 6, 132, 145, 254, 311, 315, 322, 324-326.

Make-a-Stir, Squire, =2=, 8.

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

Mallet for flints, =6=, 19.

Man, =6=, 12, 31, 37; his activity, 167, 173, 213, 214; his bread, 164, 165; his duty, 167, 186; his education, 178, 221, 222; his freedom, 175, 188, 196; his generation, 208; his immortality, 259, 294; his meanness, 179, 226.

Man, translation, =5=, 383.

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

Manchester (N. H.), =1=, 89, 225, 250, 251; Mfg. Co., 259, 260; 264, 268, 274.

Manilla hemp, =2=, 132.

Mankind, =6=, 8, 9, 31, 80, 136, 209, 210.

Mann, Horace, Jr., =6=, 385, 392.

"Man's little acts are grand," verse, =1=, 224.

Manse, the Old, =6=, 42, 51.

Map, of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts, =3=, 17, 101, 104, 308; drawing, on kitchen table, =5=, 60; of Canada, inspecting a, 95.

Maple, the red and sugar, =5=, 6; the red, 258-263, 265; the sugar, 261, 271-278.

Maple sugar, =6=, 278.

Maples, autumn colors of, =2=, 265; =5=, 6, 258-263, 265, 271-278.

Maps of Cape Cod, and New England, =4=, 227-231, 234; of walking tours, =6=, 329, 335.

Marañon, the river, =5=, 93.

Maria, Aunt (Thoreau's), =6=, 118.

Mark-Lane Gazette, =6=, 124.

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

Marlborough Chapel, =6=, 129.

Marriage, a sign of, =3=, 232; =6=, 139, 199, 200, 204, 205, 207-209, 302.

Mars' Hill, =3=, 8.

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

Marston-Watson, Benjamin (H. U. 1839), =6=, 43. _See_ Watson.

Marvell, Andrew, quoted, =4=, 451.

Massabesic, Lake, =1=, 89; Pond, 250.

Massachusetts, T.'s wish not to be associated with, =1=, 135; the attitude of, towards slavery, =4=, 362, 363; duty of the Abolitionists in, 369; slavery in, 388; the governor of, 389-392; judges, 401, 402; unworthy to be followed, 403-406; the share of, in Harper's Ferry, 430, 431; election in, =6=, 16, 18, 141.

Massachusetts Bay, shallowness of, =4=, 124.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections of the, =4=, 20.

Massachusetts Quarterly Review, =6=, 144.

Massasoit, visited by Winslow, =2=, 158.

Matahumkeag, =3=, 107; meaning of the word, 157; 210.

Matanancook River, the, =3=, 321.

Mathematics, =1=, 386.

Mattaseunk, =3=, 18.

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

Mattawamkeag Point, =3=, 4, 11, 38, 88, 316, 319.

Matungamook Lake, =3=, 295.

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

Maxims. _See_ Aphorisms.

May, Rev. Joseph, (H. U. 1857), =6=, 451.

May, Rev. Samuel Joseph, (H. U. 1818), =6=, 390.

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

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

Meanness complained of, =6=, 88, 173, 175, 176, 187.

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

Medicine, =6=, 15-17.

Medicine, Yellow-river, =6=, 391.

Meeting-houses, =6=, 195, 336, 359; meeting-house cellar, 322.

Melancholy, =6=, 41, 182, 209.

Melon, buying a, =1=, 335; =6=, ix.

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

Memory, =6=, 26, 41, 42, 93, 106; of former life, 179, 210, 211.

Men, in crowds, =6=, 79, 82, 83; of God, 214.

"Men are by birth equal in this, that given," verse, =1=, 311.

"Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend," verse, =1=, 373.

Mencius, quoted, =1=, 280; =2=, 242, 243.

Mending, =6=, 108, 363.

Menhaden, schools of, =4=, 120.

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

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

Merit and demerit, =6=, 87, 88, 97, 98, 145, 161, 162.

Merlin, =6=, 227.

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

Merrimack (N. H.), =1=, 225, 227, 251, 353, 357, 391.

Merrimack River, =1=, 8, 19, 62, 63, 80, 81; origin and course of the, 85-92; 113, 122, 150, 169, 170, 174, 177, 181, 189, 200, 202, 203, 204; the Gazetteer quoted, 206, 207, 209, 210, 225, 226, 227, 232, 251, 259, 260, 263, 269, 271, 309, 321, 345, 354; freshet on the, 379, 383, 391; =5=, 147; =6=, 6.

Message, the President's, =6=, 379.

Methods of action, =6=, 8, 9, 33, 47, 56, 67, 88, 89, 108, 118.

Mice, visited by, on Hoosac Mountain, =1=, 196; sent to Agassiz, =6=, 128, 132.

Michaux on lumbering, quoted, =3=, 48.

Michaux, André, quoted, =5=, 269.

Michaux, François André, quoted, =5=, 220, 261, 301.

Microscope, =6=, 361.

Middleborough, Bennet's Account of, =6=, 264, 265.

Middlesex (Mass.), =1=, 62, 80, 226, 385.

Middlesex Cattle Show, =2=, 36.

Midnight, exploring the, =5=, 323.

Mikania, the climbing, =1=, 43.

Milford (Me.), =3=, 7.

Milky Way? Is not our planet in the, =2=, 147.

Miller, a crabbed, =5=, 69.

Millinocket Lake, =3=, 29, 41, 73, 260.

Millinocket River, =3=, 29, 31, 86-88, 223.

Mill's "British India," =6=, 271, note.

Milne, Alexander, quoted, =5=, 193, 194.

Milton, John, quoted, =6=, 274.

Milton, the town, =6=, 219.

Minding his business, till ineligible as town officer, T., =2=, 20.

Minerva, Momus objects to house of, =2=, 37.

Ministers, on Monday morning, =1=, 123; with, on Ktaadn, =3=, 214; salaries of country, =4=, 45; some old Cape Cod, 48-55.

Minnesota, Indians of, =6=, 389, 390; rivers of, 386-389; trip to, 252, note, 380, 384-386.

Minnows, =6=, 127, 128, 131, 132.

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

Minott, George, =6=, 52, 91, 92, 106, 374, 375.

Minott, Mary, =6=, 374, 376.

Mîr Camar Uddin Mast, quoted, =2=, 111.

Mirabeau, on highway robbery, quoted, =2=, 355.

Mirages on sand and sea, =4=, 190-193.

Mirror, New York Weekly, =6=, 107, 111.

Misanthropy, not a trait of T., =6=, xii, 238.

Miscellany, Boston, =6=, 83, note, 102, note.

Mission, verse, =5=, 418.

Mississippi, discovery of the, =5=, 90; extent of the, 93; a panorama of the, 224; =6=, 384, 386, 389.

Missouri Compromise, =4=, 408.

Mizzling of sixpences, =6=, 83.

Model farm, a, =2=, 218.

"Modern improvements," an illusion about, =2=, 57, 58.

"Modern Painters," =6=, 319.

Mohawk Rips, the, =3=, 322.

Mohawk traditions, =3=, 154.

Moisture in Cape Cod air, =4=, 165.

Molasses, Molly, =3=, 174.

Molunkus (Me.), =3=, 13, 15.

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

Monadnock Mountain, =1=, 173; =5=, 4, 143, 145, 147; =6=, 329, 330, 364, 365, 368-372.

MONDAY, =1=, 121-187.

Money, making, the evil of, =4=, 458-461; =6=, 161, 162, 318, 332; hard, 318.

Monhegan Island, =3=, 94.

Monson (Me.), =3=, 97, 98, 161.

Montcalm, Wolfe and, monument to, =5=, 73, 74.

Montmorenci County, =5=, 62; the habitans of, 64-68.

Montmorenci, Falls of, =5=, 29, 37-39.

Montreal (Que.), =5=, 9, 11; described, 14-16; the mixed population of, 17, 18; from Quebec to, 96, 97; and its surroundings, beautiful view of, 98; the name of, 98.

Monuments, graveyards and, =1=, 177; descendants more dead than, 269; good sense worth more than, =2=, 64; at Concord, =6=, 24.

Moon, The, verse, =5=, 406.

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

Moonlight, reading by, =5=, 145.

Moonshine, =5=, 324, 325.

Moore, Thomas, =5=, 98.

Moore's Falls, =1=, 245.

Moose, sign of, =3=, 58, 65, 108; carcass of a, 109; night expedition in vain hunt for, 110-115; shooting at and wounding a, 122-124; found, measured, and skinned, 125-130; Indian ideas about, 153; Indian tradition of evolution of, from the whale, 163; shooting and skinning a, on Second Lake, 292-295; =6=, 311, 326, 336, 339.

Moose River, =3=, 189.

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

Moose-flies, =3=, 246.

Moosehead Lake, =3=, 45, 46, 73, 95, 97, 99, 100; steamers and sail-boats on, 104, 108, 117, 145, 150, 152, 155; Indian name for, 159, 175, 176, 181, 183; extent of, 184, 188, 193, 231, 252, 255; dragon-fly on, 272, 299, 322; =6=, 321, 324.

Moosehillock, =1=, 86.

Moosehorn Deadwater, =3=, 109.

Moosehorn Stream, the, =3=, 111, 113, 117, 118, 145, 216.

Moose-wood, =3=, 65; phosphorescent light in, 199.

Morning, impressions of, =1=, 42; work, a man's, =2=, 40; renewal of, 98-100; work in the early, 172, 173; winter, early, =5=, 163-166. _See_ Sunrise.

Morrison, John, head of a lumber-gang, =3=, 38.

Mortgages, abundance of, in Concord, =2=, 35, 36.

Morton, Edwin (H. U. 1855), =6=, 252, 301, note, 380.

Morton, Thomas, =5=, 2.

Mosquitoes, =3=, 246, 310, 311.

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

Mount Ararat in Provincetown, =4=, 190.

Mount Monadnock. _See_ Monadnock.

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

Mount Washington, =6=, 320, 321, 334.

Mountain-ash, =3=, 94.

Mountain-tops, =3=, 71.

Mountains, the use of, =5=, 148, 149; and plain, influence of the, 150, 151; =6=, 195, 196, 215, 316, 319, 323, 329, 330, 334-336, 347, 360, 363, 368, 369.

Mourt's Relation, quoted, =4=, 38, 94, 251.

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

Mud Pond, =3=, 233, 237, 238, 240, 243, 244; =6=, 325.

Mud-puddle, the sun in a, =6=, 242.

Munroe, James, publisher, =6=, 61, 125, 182, 332.

Murch Brook, =3=, 58, 64, 74.

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

Muses, =6=, 45, 178.

Music, the suggestions of, =1=, 183-209; =6=, 41, 42, note, 45, 46, 75, 193, 231, 263. _See_ Earth-song, Sounds.

Musketaquid, Grass-ground, Prairie, or Concord River, the, =1=, 3, 8; =5=, 115; =6=, 13, 60, 258.

Muskrat (musquash), a colony, =2=, 185; in Goose Pond, 299; calling a, =3=, 227; =5=, 114-117; house of, =6=, 221.

Musquash. _See_ Muskrat.

Mussel, the, =5=, 129.

"My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read," verse, =1=, 320.

"My life has been the poem I would have writ," verse, =1=, 365.

"My life is like a stroll upon the beach," verse, =1=, 255.

"My life more civil is and free," verse, =5=, 415.

"My love must be as free," verse, =1=, 297.

Myself and Yourself, =6=, 215, 361.

Mystics, =6=, 150.

Mythology, ancient history, =1=, 60.

Nahant (Mass.), =3=, 170.

Names, of places, longing for English, =1=, 54; poetry in, =5=, 20; of places, French, 56, 57; men's, 236, 237; of colors, 273, 574.

Nantasket (Mass.), =4=, 16.

Nashua (N. H.), =1=, 87, 89, 115, 116, 126, 151, 152, 169, 170, 173, 179, 391.

Nashua River, the, =1=, 375.

Nashville (N. H.), =1=, 175, 179.

Naticook Brook, =1=, 227.

NATURAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS, =5=, 103-131.

Natural history, reading books of, =5=, 103, 105.

Natural life, the, =1=, 405.

Nature, adorned, =1=, 18, 19; laws of, for man, 34; indifference of, 117; provisions of, for end of her creatures, 236; tame and wild, 337; and Art, 339; composing her poem Autumn, 403; adapted to our weakness as to our strength, =2=, 12; a liberty in, 143; no melancholy or solitude in the midst of, 145-147; the medicines of, 153; known only as a robber by the farmer, 183; men who become a part of, 232, 233; questions and answers of, 312; our knowledge of the laws of, 320; helping lay the keel of, 334; principle of operations of, 340; man's need of, 350; the earth as made by, =3=, 77, 78; always young, 89, 90; the coarse use of, 133; health to be found in, =5=, 105; man's work the most natural compared with that of, 119; the hand of, upon her children, 124, 125; different methods of work, 125; the civilized look of, 141; the winter purity of, 167; a _hortus siccus_ in, 179; men's relation to, 241, 242; love of, =6=, 3, 37, 64, 231, 277; objects of, 9, 36, 37, 71, 74, 75, 83, 87, 93.

Nature, verse, =5=, 395.

"Nature doth have her dawn each day," verse, =1=, 302.

"Nature has given horns," verse, =1=, 242.

Nauset Harbor, in Orleans, =4=, 31, 64.

Nauset Lights, =4=, 41.

Nawshawtuct Hill, =5=, 384.

Nebraska Bill, the, =4=, 403.

Necessaries of life, =2=, 12, 13.

Necessity, a seeming fate, commonly called, =2=, 6.

Negro slavery, =2=, 8.

Neighborhood, avoiding a bad, ourselves, =2=, 37.

Neptune, Louis, =3=, 10, 86; a call on governor, 162, 163; the old chief, 174.

Neptune, the god, =6=, 28; the planet, 138.

Nerlumskeechticook Mountain, =3=, 249, 260, 291, 297, 298, 301.

Nesenkeag, =1=, 206.

Nests, fishes', =1=, 24, 25; =6=, 63, 161.

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

New Bedford, =6=, 235-240, 258, 261, 263, 265, 271, 274, 313, 333, 341, 342, 352, 359, 396.

New clothes, beware of all enterprises requiring, =2=, 26.

Newcomb, Charles, =6=, 298, note.

New England, Arcadian element in the life of, =1=, 256; "Walden" of and for people of, =2=, 4; hardships endured that men may die in, 15; wealth causes respect in, 25; mean life lived by inhabitants of, 107; can hire all the wise men of the world to teach her, 122; natural sports of, 233; Rum, 285; Night's entertainment, a, 297.

New Hampshire, =1=, 85; for the Antipodes, leaving, 151; man, a, 211; line, crossing the, 377; =6=, 329, 331, 334-336, 363, 365.

New Hollander, naked when European shivers in clothes, =2=, 14.

New Jersey, =6=, 70, 283-290.

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

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

New Testament, the, =1=, 72-75, 142; practicalness of, 146; =6=, 137.

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

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

Newbury port (Mass.), =1=, 87-89.

Newfound Lake, =1=, 87, 89.

News, getting the, from ocean steamers, =1=, 253; "What's the," =2=, 104; futility of the, 104.

Newspapers, reading, on Hoosac Mountain, =1=, 194; influence and servility of Boston, =4=, 398-400; and John Brown, 416, 417; evils of reading the, 471-476; =6=, 175, 176, 180, 186.

Newton, Sir Isaac, =6=, 136.

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

New York, =6=, 18, 35, 50, 53, 62, 68, 70, 72, 78-80, 83-87, 90, 95, 101, 107, note, 109, 117, 121, 283, 287, 291, 296, 297.

New Zealand, =6=, 236, 255, 381, 383, note.

Niagara, =6=, 384.

Nicketow (Me.) =3=, 7, 19, 260, 316, 319.

Niebuhr, Barthold George, quoted, =5=, 290.

Niepce, Joseph Nicéphore, quoted, =5=, 238.

Night, thoughts in the, =1=, 354; walking the woods by, =2=, 187-190; in the woods, a, =3=, 43-45; thoughts by a stream at, 131; sounds in the woods at, 247, 248; on Wachusett, =5=, 146; the senses in the, =5=, 327, 328; on the mountain, =6=, 371; on the river, 231. _See_ Sunset.

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

Nightfall, =1=, 37-40, 117.

Nilometer. _See_ Realometer.

Nine Acre Corner, =1=, 5; White Pond in, =2=, 199.

Nix's mate, story of, =4=, 267.

"No Admittance," never painted on T.'s gate, =2=, 18.