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A Visit to Worcester—A Fallen Oak—Angelica and
Hemlock—Transcendentalism—The Past and the Future—Who
boosts You?—F. A. Michaux on the Ohio—Various Trees—Our
Garments and the Trees’—A Moonlight Walk—Crossing
Bridges at Night—Air-Strata at Night—A Book of the
Seasons—South American Notes from Darwin’s “Voyage of
a Naturalist”—Moonlight—Breathing—The Shimmering of the
Moon’s Reflections on the Rippled Surface of a Pond—The
Bittern’s Pumping—Twilight—Music Out-of-Doors—The
Whip-poor-will’s Moon—Fireflies—Darwin again—The
Rapid Growth of Grass—The Birch the Surveyor’s
Tree—Criticism—Calmness—The Wood Thrush’s Song—The Ox’s
Badges of Servitude—A Visit to a Menagerie—Old Country
Methods of Farming—The Hypæthral Character of the
“Week”—Dog and Wagon—Haying begun—The Fragrance of the
Fir.