"Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head," verse,144.Notre Dame (Montreal),11; a visit to,12-14.Notre Dame des Anges, Seigniory of,96.Nurse-plants,193.Nuthatch, the,108.Nuttall, Thomas, quoted,111,112.Oak, succeeding pine, andvice versa,185,187,189; the scarlet,278-281; leaves, scarlet,278-280.Ogilby, America of 1670, quoted,91.Old Marlborough Road, The, verse,214.Olympia at Evening, translation,378.Omnipresence, verse,417."O Nature! I do not aspire," verse,395."One more is gone," verse,405.Origin of Rhodes, translation,376.Orinoco, the river,93.Orleans, Isle of,41,42.Orsinora,90.Ortelius,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,89.Ossian, quoted,332.Ottawa River, the,41,94,98.Oui, the repeated,60.Palladius, quoted,294,308.Patent office, seeds sent by the,203.Peleus and Cadmus, translation,381.Penobscot Indians, use of muskrat-skins by,116,117.Perch, the,123.Phœbe, the,112.Pickerel-fisher, the,180,181.Pies, no, in Quebec,86.Pilgrims, verse,413.Pinbéna, the,48.Pindar, Translations from,375.Pine, oak succeeding, andvice versa,185,187,189; family, a,243,244.Pine cone, stripped by squirrels,196.Plain and mountain, life of the,151.Plants on Cape Diamond, Quebec,27.Plicipennes,170.Pliny, the Elder, quoted,292.Plover, the,112.Plum, beach,201.Poems,393-419.Point Levi, by ferry to,70; a night at,71;89.Pointe aux Trembles,20,21.Poke, or garget, the,253-255.Pommettes,39."Poor bird! destined to lead thy life," verse,411.Potherie, quoted,52.Poverty, verse,412.Prairie River, Musketaquid or,115.Prayer, verse,418.Prometheus Bound of Æschylus, The, translation,337.Purana, the, quoted,327.Purple Grasses, The,252-258.Quail, a white,109, note.Quebec (Que.),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.Rainbow in Falls of the Chaudière,70,71.Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted,329.Reports on the natural history of Massachusetts,103,114,118,123,129,130.Return of Spring, verse,109.Rhexia,252.Richelieu, Isles of,96.Richelieu or St. John's River,8.Richelieu Rapids, the,21.Richter, Jean Paul, quoted,330,331.River, the flow of a,178.River-bank, ice formations in a,128,129.Rivière du Sud, the,92.Rivière more meandering than River,56.Roberval, Sieur de,95,96.Robin, the,109; a white,109, note.Robin Hood Ballads, quoted,150,207.Rowlandson, Mrs.,149.St. Anne, the Falls of,40; Church ofLa Bonne,49; lodgings in village of,49-51;interior of the church ofLa Bonne,51,52; Falls of, described,52-55.St. Charles River, the,30.St. Helen's Island (Montreal),11.St. John's (Que.),9,10.St. John's River,8.St. Lawrence River,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.St. Maurice River,94.Saguenay River,91,94.Salutations, Canadian,47.Sault à la Puce, Rivière du,48,58.Sault Norman,11.Sault St. Louis,11.Saunter, derivation of the word,205,206.Scarlet Oak, The,278-285.Schoolhouse, a Canadian,46.Science, the bravery of,106,107.Scotchman dissatisfied with Canada, a,75.Scriptures, Hebrew, inadequacy of regarding winter,183.Sea-plants near Quebec,93.Seeds, the transportation of, by wind,186,187; by birds,187-189; by squirrels,190-200; the vitality of,200-203.Seeing, individual,285-288.Selenites,323.Sign language,61.Sillery (Que.),22.Silliman, Benjamin, quoted,98.Skating,177,178.Smoke, winter morning,165; seen from a hilltop,173,174.Snake, the,123,124.Snipe-shooting grounds,48.Snow,181,182; not recognized in Hebrew Scriptures,183.Snowbird, the,109.Society, health not to be found in,105.Soldiers, English, in Canada,9,10,16,17; in Quebec,24-27,79,80.Solomon, quoted,291."Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion," verse,112.Sounds, winter morning,163,164.Sorel River,8.Sparrow, the song,109.Spaulding's farm,243.Spearing fish,121-123.Speech, country,137.Spring, on the Concord River,119-121.Squash, the large yellow,203.Squirrel, a red, burying nuts,190,191; with nuts under snow,195; pine cones stripped by the,196; with filled cheek-pouches,198.Stars, the,328,329.Stillriver Village (Mass.),151.Stillwater, the,140,142.Stow (Mass.),136.Succession of Forest Trees, The,184-204.Sudbury (Mass.),303.Sugar Maple, The,271-278.Sunset, a remarkable,246-248.Tamias, the steward squirrel,198.Tavern, the gods' interest in the,153; compared with the church, the,161,162.Tenures, Canadian,63."Thank God, who seasons thus the year," verse,407.Thaw, The, verse,409."The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray," verse,406."The god of day his car rolls up the slopes," verse,399."The needles of the pine," verse,133."The rabbit leaps," verse,410."The river swelleth more and more," verse,120."The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell," verse,165.Theophrastus,292.Thomson, James, quoted,249.Thoreau, Henry David, leaves Concord for Canada, 25th September, 1850,3; 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."Thou dusky spirit of the wood," verse,113.Three Rivers (Que.),21,93.Three-o'clock courage,208,209.To a Stray Fowl, verse,411.To Aristoclides, Victor at the Nemean Games, translation,384.To Asopichus, or Orchomenos, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, translation,378.To My Brother, verse,403.To the Maiden in the East, verse,400.To the Lyre, translation,379.Toil, translation,389.Translations,337-392.Translations from Pindar,375-392.Trappers,115.Traverse, the,92.Traveling outfit, the best,31-34.Trees, Canadian,48; the suggestions of,125; the natural planting of,186-202; a town's need of,272-278; for seasons,276.Tree-tops, things seen and found on,245,246.Troy (N. H.),4.Turtle, the snapping,124."Upon the lofty elm tree sprays," verse,112.Val Cartier (Que.),89.Varennes, the church of,97,98.Veery, the,112.Vegetation, the type of all growth,128.Vergennes (Vt.),7.Village, a continuous,42,43; the,213; trees in a,275-278.Virgil, reading,138,143,144.Wachusett, a view of,138; range, the,139; ascent of,142; birds or vegetation on summit of,143; night on,145,146; an observatory,147.Walls, Quebec and other,74.Walk to Wachusett, A,133-152.Walkers, the order of,206,207.Walking,205-248.Walks, not on beaten paths,213,214; the direction of,216-219; adventurous,285; by night,326.Watatic,137,147."We pronounce thee happy, Cicada," verse,108.West, walking towards the,217-220; general tendency towards the,219-224.Westmoreland, etymology of,6.Whales in the St. Lawrence,91."Whate'er we leave to God, God does," verse,396."When life contracts into a vulgar span," verse,404."When the world grows old by the chimney-side," verse,417."When winter fringes every bough," verse,176."Where they once dug for money," verse,214.Whitney, Peter, quoted,312."Who equaleth the coward's haste," verse,417."Whoa," the crying of, to mankind,235.Wild Apples,290-322.Wildness, the necessity of,224-236; in literature,230-233; in domestic animals,234-236.Willow, golden, leaves,266.Winter Scene, A, verse,410.Winter Walk, A,163-183.Winter, warmth in,167,168; the woods in,168,169; nature ahortus siccusin,179; as represented in the almanac,182; ignored in Hebrew revelation,183; evening,183."With frontier strength ye stand your ground," verse,133."Within the circuit of this plodding life," verse,103.Wolfe and Montcalm, monument to,73.Wolfe's Cove,22.Women, Canadian,34.Woodbine,3,4,276.Woodchopper, winter to be represented as a,182.Woodman, hut and work of a,172,173.Woods in winter, the,168,169.Wordsworth, reading,143,144.Yankee in Canada, A,1-101."Yorrick," the,112, note.
"Not unconcerned Wachusett rears his head," verse,144.
Notre Dame (Montreal),11; a visit to,12-14.
Notre Dame des Anges, Seigniory of,96.
Nurse-plants,193.
Nuthatch, the,108.
Nuttall, Thomas, quoted,111,112.
Oak, succeeding pine, andvice versa,185,187,189; the scarlet,278-281; leaves, scarlet,278-280.
Ogilby, America of 1670, quoted,91.
Old Marlborough Road, The, verse,214.
Olympia at Evening, translation,378.
Omnipresence, verse,417.
"O Nature! I do not aspire," verse,395.
"One more is gone," verse,405.
Origin of Rhodes, translation,376.
Orinoco, the river,93.
Orleans, Isle of,41,42.
Orsinora,90.
Ortelius,Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,89.
Ossian, quoted,332.
Ottawa River, the,41,94,98.
Oui, the repeated,60.
Palladius, quoted,294,308.
Patent office, seeds sent by the,203.
Peleus and Cadmus, translation,381.
Penobscot Indians, use of muskrat-skins by,116,117.
Perch, the,123.
Phœbe, the,112.
Pickerel-fisher, the,180,181.
Pies, no, in Quebec,86.
Pilgrims, verse,413.
Pinbéna, the,48.
Pindar, Translations from,375.
Pine, oak succeeding, andvice versa,185,187,189; family, a,243,244.
Pine cone, stripped by squirrels,196.
Plain and mountain, life of the,151.
Plants on Cape Diamond, Quebec,27.
Plicipennes,170.
Pliny, the Elder, quoted,292.
Plover, the,112.
Plum, beach,201.
Poems,393-419.
Point Levi, by ferry to,70; a night at,71;89.
Pointe aux Trembles,20,21.
Poke, or garget, the,253-255.
Pommettes,39.
"Poor bird! destined to lead thy life," verse,411.
Potherie, quoted,52.
Poverty, verse,412.
Prairie River, Musketaquid or,115.
Prayer, verse,418.
Prometheus Bound of Æschylus, The, translation,337.
Purana, the, quoted,327.
Purple Grasses, The,252-258.
Quail, a white,109, note.
Quebec (Que.),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.
Rainbow in Falls of the Chaudière,70,71.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted,329.
Reports on the natural history of Massachusetts,103,114,118,123,129,130.
Return of Spring, verse,109.
Rhexia,252.
Richelieu, Isles of,96.
Richelieu or St. John's River,8.
Richelieu Rapids, the,21.
Richter, Jean Paul, quoted,330,331.
River, the flow of a,178.
River-bank, ice formations in a,128,129.
Rivière du Sud, the,92.
Rivière more meandering than River,56.
Roberval, Sieur de,95,96.
Robin, the,109; a white,109, note.
Robin Hood Ballads, quoted,150,207.
Rowlandson, Mrs.,149.
St. Anne, the Falls of,40; Church ofLa Bonne,49; lodgings in village of,49-51;interior of the church ofLa Bonne,51,52; Falls of, described,52-55.
St. Charles River, the,30.
St. Helen's Island (Montreal),11.
St. John's (Que.),9,10.
St. John's River,8.
St. Lawrence River,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.
St. Maurice River,94.
Saguenay River,91,94.
Salutations, Canadian,47.
Sault à la Puce, Rivière du,48,58.
Sault Norman,11.
Sault St. Louis,11.
Saunter, derivation of the word,205,206.
Scarlet Oak, The,278-285.
Schoolhouse, a Canadian,46.
Science, the bravery of,106,107.
Scotchman dissatisfied with Canada, a,75.
Scriptures, Hebrew, inadequacy of regarding winter,183.
Sea-plants near Quebec,93.
Seeds, the transportation of, by wind,186,187; by birds,187-189; by squirrels,190-200; the vitality of,200-203.
Seeing, individual,285-288.
Selenites,323.
Sign language,61.
Sillery (Que.),22.
Silliman, Benjamin, quoted,98.
Skating,177,178.
Smoke, winter morning,165; seen from a hilltop,173,174.
Snake, the,123,124.
Snipe-shooting grounds,48.
Snow,181,182; not recognized in Hebrew Scriptures,183.
Snowbird, the,109.
Society, health not to be found in,105.
Soldiers, English, in Canada,9,10,16,17; in Quebec,24-27,79,80.
Solomon, quoted,291.
"Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion," verse,112.
Sounds, winter morning,163,164.
Sorel River,8.
Sparrow, the song,109.
Spaulding's farm,243.
Spearing fish,121-123.
Speech, country,137.
Spring, on the Concord River,119-121.
Squash, the large yellow,203.
Squirrel, a red, burying nuts,190,191; with nuts under snow,195; pine cones stripped by the,196; with filled cheek-pouches,198.
Stars, the,328,329.
Stillriver Village (Mass.),151.
Stillwater, the,140,142.
Stow (Mass.),136.
Succession of Forest Trees, The,184-204.
Sudbury (Mass.),303.
Sugar Maple, The,271-278.
Sunset, a remarkable,246-248.
Tamias, the steward squirrel,198.
Tavern, the gods' interest in the,153; compared with the church, the,161,162.
Tenures, Canadian,63.
"Thank God, who seasons thus the year," verse,407.
Thaw, The, verse,409.
"The full-orbed moon with unchanged ray," verse,406.
"The god of day his car rolls up the slopes," verse,399.
"The needles of the pine," verse,133.
"The rabbit leaps," verse,410.
"The river swelleth more and more," verse,120.
"The sluggish smoke curls up from some deep dell," verse,165.
Theophrastus,292.
Thomson, James, quoted,249.
Thoreau, Henry David, leaves Concord for Canada, 25th September, 1850,3; 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.
"Thou dusky spirit of the wood," verse,113.
Three Rivers (Que.),21,93.
Three-o'clock courage,208,209.
To a Stray Fowl, verse,411.
To Aristoclides, Victor at the Nemean Games, translation,384.
To Asopichus, or Orchomenos, on his Victory in the Stadic Course, translation,378.
To My Brother, verse,403.
To the Maiden in the East, verse,400.
To the Lyre, translation,379.
Toil, translation,389.
Translations,337-392.
Translations from Pindar,375-392.
Trappers,115.
Traverse, the,92.
Traveling outfit, the best,31-34.
Trees, Canadian,48; the suggestions of,125; the natural planting of,186-202; a town's need of,272-278; for seasons,276.
Tree-tops, things seen and found on,245,246.
Troy (N. H.),4.
Turtle, the snapping,124.
"Upon the lofty elm tree sprays," verse,112.
Val Cartier (Que.),89.
Varennes, the church of,97,98.
Veery, the,112.
Vegetation, the type of all growth,128.
Vergennes (Vt.),7.
Village, a continuous,42,43; the,213; trees in a,275-278.
Virgil, reading,138,143,144.
Wachusett, a view of,138; range, the,139; ascent of,142; birds or vegetation on summit of,143; night on,145,146; an observatory,147.
Walls, Quebec and other,74.
Walk to Wachusett, A,133-152.
Walkers, the order of,206,207.
Walking,205-248.
Walks, not on beaten paths,213,214; the direction of,216-219; adventurous,285; by night,326.
Watatic,137,147.
"We pronounce thee happy, Cicada," verse,108.
West, walking towards the,217-220; general tendency towards the,219-224.
Westmoreland, etymology of,6.
Whales in the St. Lawrence,91.
"Whate'er we leave to God, God does," verse,396.
"When life contracts into a vulgar span," verse,404.
"When the world grows old by the chimney-side," verse,417.
"When winter fringes every bough," verse,176.
"Where they once dug for money," verse,214.
Whitney, Peter, quoted,312.
"Who equaleth the coward's haste," verse,417.
"Whoa," the crying of, to mankind,235.
Wild Apples,290-322.
Wildness, the necessity of,224-236; in literature,230-233; in domestic animals,234-236.
Willow, golden, leaves,266.
Winter Scene, A, verse,410.
Winter Walk, A,163-183.
Winter, warmth in,167,168; the woods in,168,169; nature ahortus siccusin,179; as represented in the almanac,182; ignored in Hebrew revelation,183; evening,183.
"With frontier strength ye stand your ground," verse,133.
"Within the circuit of this plodding life," verse,103.
Wolfe and Montcalm, monument to,73.
Wolfe's Cove,22.
Women, Canadian,34.
Woodbine,3,4,276.
Woodchopper, winter to be represented as a,182.
Woodman, hut and work of a,172,173.
Woods in winter, the,168,169.
Wordsworth, reading,143,144.
Yankee in Canada, A,1-101.
"Yorrick," the,112, note.