Chapter D: D.'s and chickadee-dees, =4=, 469 (2)

"No generous action can delay," verse, =5=, 418.

Noah's dove, =6=, 48.

Nobscot Hill, =5=, 303, 304; =6=, 280.

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

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

North Bridge, =1=, 14, 16, 33.

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

North Twin Lake, =3=, 39, 80, 84.

Northeaster, a, =4=, 204, 209-211.

Norumbega, =4=, 239; =5=, 90.

Norwegian immigrants, =6=, 110.

No-see-em, midge called, =3=, 245, 246.

"Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head," verse, =5=, 144.

Notes from the Journal of a Scholar (Charles Emerson), =6=, 94.

Notre Dame (Montreal), =5=, 11; a visit to, 12-14.

Notre Dame des Anges, Seigniory of, =5=, 96.

Nova Scotia, =6=, 338.

Novel-reading, =2=, 116, 117.

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

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

Nurse-plants, =5=, 193.

Nuthatch, the, =5=, 108.

Nuts, =6=, 3, 216, 300.

Nuttall, Thomas, quoted, =5=, 111, 112.

Nutting, in Lincoln woods, =2=, 263, 264.

Nutting, Sam, an old hunter, =2=, 308.

Oak, succeeding pine, and vice versa, =5=, 185, 187, 189; the scarlet, 278-281; leaves, scarlet, 278-280.

Oak Hall hand-bill and carry, =3=, 55, 83.

Observatory on Hoosac Mountain, the, =1=, 197.

Ocean, calm, rough, and fruitful, =4=, 124-128; beaches across the, 177, 178; its phenomena, =6=, xi, 70, 133.

October, the best season for visiting the Cape, =4=, 272.

Ode to Beauty, Emerson's, =6=, 115-117.

"Oft, as I turn me on my pillow o'er," verse, =1=, 384.

Ogilby, America of 1670, quoted, =5=, 91.

Olamon Mountains, =3=, 323.

Olamon River, the, and meaning of word, =3=, 324.

Olata, the swift-sailing yacht, =4=, 265.

Old Fort Hill, =3=, 166.

Old Marlborough Road, The, verse, =5=, 214.

Oldtown (Me.), =3=, 4, 6, 7, 9, 88, 142, 152, 153, 160, 161, 166, 167, 174, 192, 202, 204, 222, 226, 259, 272, 274, 313, 320, 322, 323, 325-327.

Olympia, =6=, 55.

Olympia at Evening, translation, =5=, 378.

Olympus, the outside of the earth, everywhere, =2=, 94; =6=, 93.

Omnipresence, verse, =5=, 417.

"O nature! I do not aspire," verse, =5=, 395.

On a Silver Cup, verse, =1=, 240.

On Himself, =1=, 241.

On His Lyre, verse, =1=, 240.

On Love, verse, =1=, 242.

On Lovers, verse, =1=, 243.

"On Ponkawtasset, since we took our way," verse, =1=, 16.

On Women, verse, =1=, 242.

"One more is gone," verse, =5=, 405.

Opera, =6=, 216, 322.

Opposition to society, =2=, 355.

Oracles of Quarles, =6=, 112.

Orchard House, =6=, 333, note.

Orchis, the great round-leaved, =3=, 240.

Organ-grinders on the Cape, =4=, 30.

Oriel College, Oxford, =6=, 236, 342.

Oriental, Occidental and, =1=, 147; exclusion of the, in Western learning, 148, 149; quality in New England life, the, 256, 257.

Origin of Rhodes, translation, =5=, 376.

"Origin of Species," Darwin's, =6=, 382.

Orinoco, the river, =5=, 93.

Orleans (Mass.), =4=, 22; Higgins's tavern at, 29.

Orleans, Isle of, =5=, 41, 42.

Ornaments, significance of architectural, =2=, 52.

Orono (Me.), =3=, 92.

Orsinora, =5=, 90.

Ortelius, _Theatrum Orbis Terrarum_, =5=, 89.

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

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

Osprey, =6=, 46.

Ossian, =1=, 366-571, 393; quoted, =5=, 332.

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

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

O'Sullivan, =6=, 51, 102, 107.

Ottawa River, the, =5=, 41, 94, 98.

Otternic Pond, =1=, 169.

_Oui_, the repeated, =5=, 60.

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

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

Ovid, quoted, =1=, 2, 228; =2=, 6, 346, 348.

Owl, winged brother of the cat, watching an, =2=, 293.

Owls, wailing of, =2=, 138-140; in Walden woods in winter, 300, 301; =6=, 77, 154.

"Packed in my mind lie all the clothes," verse, =1=, 313.

Packs, of tourists, =6=, 335, 336, 368.

Paddling, a lesson in, =3=, 325, 326.

Painted-cup, =6=, 71.

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

Palladius, quoted, =5=, 294, 308.

Palmer, Edward, =6=, 82, 97.

Palmer, Joseph, at Fruitlands, =6=, 143, 155.

Pamadumcook Lakes, the, =3=, 30, 45, 47, 84; meaning of the word, 156; 260.

Pamet River, =4=, 134.

Pan, not dead, =1=, 65; and Whitman, =6=, 298.

Pandora's box, =6=, 20.

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

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

Paradise, =6=, 10, 111, 162.

Parcæ, the, =6=, 149.

Parker House, =6=, 344, 345.

Parker, Theodore, =6=, 53, 237, 343, 355.

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

Parkman, Francis, =6=, 6.

Parkman house, =6=, 6.

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

Parlor lectures, =6=, 192, 352.

Partheanna, =6=, 55.

Parthian army, =6=, 153.

Partridge, the, =2=, 250-252, 304, 311; =6=, 60.

Partridge-berries, =6=, 195.

Pasaconaway, =1=, 267, 269.

Pascal and Henry James, =6=, 122.

Passadumkeag River, the, =3=, 8, 9, 323, 324.

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

Passamagamet Lake, =3=, 50, 51.

Passamagamet Stream, =3=, 50, 51.

Passamaquoddy River, the, =3=, 5, 91.

"Past and Present," =6=, 81, 101.

Past, darkness of the, =1=, 163.

Patent Office, seeds sent by the, =5=, 203.

Patmore, Coventry, his "Angel in the House," =6=, 279.

Pauper, visit from half-witted, =2=, 167.

Pawtucket Falls, the lock-keeper at, =1=, 80; Dam, 88; Canal, deepening the, 263.

Pea, beach, =4=, 90, 206, 207.

Peabody (a classmate of T.), =6=, 24.

Peabody, Miss Elizabeth Palmer, =6=, 61, 287.

Peace, lecture on, =6=, 52; remarks on, 141, 249, 250.

Peaked Mountain, =3=, 254.

Pear tree, the, planted by Thomas Prince, =4=, 43.

Peddler, T., taken for, =6=, 245.

Peetweets, Indian word for, =3=, 182.

Pehlvi, dialect, =6=, 54.

Pekin, =6=, 89.

Peleus and Cadmus, translation, =5=, 381

Pelham (N. H.), =1=, 92.

Pellico, Silvio, =6=, 53.

Pembroke (N. H.), =1=, 124.

Pemigewasset, the, =1=, 85, 86, 88, 333; Basin, on the, 261.

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

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

Pencil-making, =6=, 6, 174, 182, note, 335, note.

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

Penichook Brook, =1=, 179, 202, 374.

Penna, how pronounced, =6=, 25.

Pennsylvania, =6=, 96, 276, 281.

Pennyroyal, =1=, 272.

Penobscot County, =3=, 73.

Penobscot Indians, living in cotton tents, =2=, 31; sociability of, =3=, 321; use of muskrat-skins by, =5=, 116, 117.

Penobscot River, the, =3=, 3, 5, 6; Indian islands in the, 7; 17, 18, 24, 29, 31, 32, 40, 41, 54, 77, 80, 87, 91, 95, 96, 103-105, 107, 108; between Moosehead and Chesuncook Lakes, described, 117; 145, 148; meaning of the word, 157, 158, 161 166, 176, 193, 202; West Branch of, 203, 208, 209, 233, 234, 238, 270-272; main boom of the, 329.

Pepin Lake.

Perch, the common, =1=, 26; =5=, 123; =6=, 134, 311, 322, 325, 336.

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

Persius Flaccus, Aulus, =1=, 327-333; =6=, 6, 158.

Petrel, the storm, =4=, 114.

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

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

Phenomenal and real, =6=, 57, 58, 88, 89, 146, 321, 347, 348.

Philanthropy, generally considered, =2=, 82-86; =6=, 118, 192, 212, 283, 346.

Phillips, Wendell, before the Concord Lyceum, =4=, 311; qualities of, as reformer and orator, 311-315; =6=, 255, 397.

Philosopher, what he is and is not, =2=, 16; visits from a, 295-298.

Philosophers, ancient, poor in outward, rich in inward riches, =2=, 15, 16; =6=, 11, 26, 52, 64, 65, 153, 299, 300.

"Philosopher's Scales," =6=, 115.

Philosophy, Asiatic, =1=, 140, 141; loftiness of the Oriental, 142, 143; Stoical, =6=, x; mental, =6=, 25-27; Transcendental, 81, 159; 114, 270, 296, 299, 300.

Phoebe, the, =5=, 112.

Phoebus Apollo, =6=, 44.

Phosphorescence, =6=, 309, 310.

Phosphorescent wood, =3=, 199-201.

Physician, priest and, =1=, 272.

Pickerel, the, =1=, 29; Walden, =2=, 204, 205, 314; =6=, 126-128, 131.

Pickerel-fisher, the, =5=, 180, 181.

Pickerel-weed (pontederia), =1=, 18.

Picturesque, =6=, 239, 264.

Pierce, President Franklin, =6=, 193, 211, 250.

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

Piety, =6=, 37, 42, 89.

Pigeons, =1=, 235; =6=, 21.

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

Pilgrims, verse, =5=, 413.

Pilgrims, Canterbury, =6=, 383.

Pilgrim's Progress, the best sermon, =1=, 72; =6=, 377.

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

_Pinbéna_, the, =5=, 48.

Pindar, quoted, =1=, 259; =6=, 102.

Pindar, Translations from, =5=, 375.

Pine, felling a, =2=, 47; oak succeeding, and _vice versa_, =5=, 185, 187, 189; family a, 243, 244.

Pine, pitch, tracts of, =4=, 22.

Pine, white, =3=, 160; forests, 169; red, 268; Labrador and red, 296.

Pine cone, stripped by squirrels, =5=, 196.

Pine Stream, =3=, 122, 136, 216.

Pine Stream Deadwater, =3=, 121.

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

Pinnacle, Hooksett, =1=, 318, 321.

Pioneers, old and new, =1=, 124.

Piracy, =6=, 154.

Piscataqua, the, =1=, 202.

Piscataquis Falls, =3=, 322.

Piscataquis River, the, =3=, 101; meaning of the word, 157, 179, 260, 327.

Piscataquoag, =1=, 87, 259.

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

Pitching a canoe, =3=, 105.

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

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

Plaistow (N. H.), =1=, 185.

Plants, the nobler valued for their fruit in air and light, =2=, 17; abundance of strange, by Moosehead Lake, =3=, 103, 104, 188; observed on Mount Kineo, 195; about camp on the Caucomgomoc, 223; along the Umbazookskus, 229, 230; in cedar swamp by Chamberlain Lake, 239-241; on East Branch, 302; on Cape Cod beach, =4=, 111; about Highland Light, 135, 167; about the Clay Pounds, 165; on Cape Diamond, Quebec, =5=, 27.

Plato, =2=, 119; definition of a man, 165; =6=, 150.

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

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

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

Plicipennes, =5=, 170.

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

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

Plum, beach, =5=, 201.

Plum Island, =1=, 86, 88, 210.

Plutarch, quoted, =1=, 183.

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

Plymouth (Mass.), =6=, 35, 42, 190, 192, 232-234, 238, 301, note, 328, 380.

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

Plymouth Church, =6=, 297.

Pockwockomus Falls, =3=, 56, 57, 83.

Pockwockomus Lake, =3=, 50.

POEMS, =5=, 393-419.

Poet, poems and the, =1=, 362-366; 400-403; visits from a, =2=, 295.

Poetry, the nature of, =1=, 93-98; the mysticism of mankind, 350; of the "Dial," =6=, 38, 60, 115, 124; Greek, 60; English, 65, 66, 112-114, 153, 235, 259, 275.

Poets, never yet read by mankind, =2=, 115, 116; =6=, xi, 27, 93.

Poet's Delay, The, verse, =1=, 366.

Point Allerton, =4=, 15.

Point Levi, by ferry to, =5=, 70; a night at, 71; 89.

Pointe aux Trembles, =5=, 20, 21.

Poke, or garget, the, =5=, 253-255.

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, 485.

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.