Canal-boat, appearance of a, 187; |
passing a, in fog, 249; later and
early thoughts about a, 274-280;
with sails, 340.
Cardinals, 22.
Carlisle Bridge, 24, 46.
Carlisle (Mass.), 4, 47, 63, 66.
Carnac, 331.
Cattle Show, the Concord, 443-447.
Channing, W. E., quoted, 53.
Chateaubriand, quoted, 171.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, quoted, 365, 417,
436; in praise of, 483-494.
Chelmsford (Mass.), 66, 78, 101, 106,
110, 114, 141, 333, 474, 483.
Chivin, Dace, Roach, or Cousin
Trout, 34.
Christianity, practical and radical,
176.
Classics, study of the, 296.
Coat-of-arms, a Concord, 9.
Cohass Brook, 311.
Cohasset, the Indian, 311.
Commerce, 278.
Common and uncommon sense, 511.
Conantum, 462.
Concord (Mass.), settlement of, 3;
historian of, quoted, 4; 6; coat-of-
arms for, 9; territory of, in 1831,
10; described by Johnson, 10;
meadows, 11; a port of entry, 15;
17; poet, a, 18; 45, 54, 62, 63, 77,
79, 102, 155; history of, quoted,
156; 211; Cliffs, 212; 282, 427;
Cattle Show in, 443-447; return
to, 518.
Concord (N. H.), 110, 111; 333, 382;
entertained in, and origin of, 399,
400.
CONCORD RIVER, 3-13.
Concord River, 3; course of, 4; gen-
tleness of, 8; 12, 13, 23, 24, 78, 112,
140; a canal-boat on, and Fair
Haven, 276-278; Conantum on
the, 462; reaching the, 483.
Confucius, quoted, 357, 371.
Connecticut River, the, 109, 111,
113, 264, 327.
Conscience, the, 93, 172; the chief
of conservatives, 175.
"Conscience is instinct bred in the
house," verse, 94.
Conservatism, the wisest, 174.
Contoocook, 108.
Cooking, 294.
Coos Falls, 307, 437.
Coreopsis, 22.
Cotton, Charles, quoted, 309.
Cousin Trout.
Cranberry Island, 6.
Cromwell's Falls, 110; story of
Cromwell and, 256.
Crooked River, the Souhegan, or,
287.
Crusoe, Robinson, among the Arabs,
74.
Cupid Wounded, verse, 302.
Cultivation, wildness and, 68.
Custom, the grave of, 170; imme-
morial, 175.
Daggers, looking, 29.
Dace. See Chivin.
Discovery, inner, 505.
De Monts, Sieur, quoted, 53.
Dogs, barking of house-, 49.
"Dong, sounds the brass in the
East," verse, 62.
Donne, Dr. John, quoted, 391, 441.
Dracut (Mass.), 101.
Dreams, 149, 391.
Drum, sound of a, by night, 224.
Dunstable (Mass.), 80, 142, 154, 155,
160, 216, 217, 220, 258, 282; history
Dustan, Hannah, escape with nurse
of, 218; quoted, 141, 157.
and child from Indians, 422-427.
Eel, the common, the lamprey, 38.
Election birds, 71.
Eliot, John, 102.
Emerson, quoted, 3, 18, 128, 129, 393.
Epitaphs, 221.
End of Nature's creatures, the, 293.
Eyes, movement of the, 100.
Extemporaneous living, 410.
Fable, the universal appeal of, 72;
Fair Haven, a canal boat on, 278.
the Christian, 84.
Farwell of Dunstable, 217-219, 258.
Fisherman, the, 26; Account Cur-
rent of a, 41.
Fishes, the nature of, 28.
Flea, deserts made by bite of a, 259.
Fish-hawk, the, 255.
Flowers, autumn, 466.
Floating in a skiff as if in mid-air, 60.
Fog, early morning, 233, 249; pic-
turesque effect of, 250.
Fox Island, 54.
Framingham (Mass.), 4, 66.
Franconia (N. H.), 111.
Fresh-water or river wolf, 36.
Freshet on the Merrimack, 469.
FRIDAY, 441-518.
Friends and Friendship, 341-381.
Frontiers, wherever men front, 400.
Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 329, 511.
Gazetteer, reading the, 115; quoted,
256, 322, 323, 334-336.
Genius, order in the development of,
407; the man of, 432; a man and
his, 448.
Gerardia, the purple, 22.
Gesner, Konrad von, quoted, 480.
God, T.'s idea of, 81, 82; men's im-
pertinent knowledge of, 88, 89;
the personality of, 98.
Goethe, 429-432; quoted, 434-436.
Goff's Falls, 311.
Goffstown (N. H.), 254, 323, 336,
Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma,
191.
Henry, Alexander, Adventures of,
283, 285-287; Wawatam's friend-
ship with, 362.
Herons, 514.
Hesiod, quoted, 79.
Hibiscus, 23.
History, the reading and the an-
tiquity of, 200-203.
Homer, 121, 486.
Hooksett (N. H.), 279, 312, 323, 339,
340, 382, 383, 414; Pinnacle,
395; Falls, 398.
Hoosack Mountain, T.'s ascent of,
235-248.
Hopkinton (Mass.), 4, 40.
"Horses have the mark," verse,
301.
Horseshoe Interval, the, 157, 466.
Hudson (N. H.), 188, 189, 191, 211.
Huguenots of Staten Island, 236.
"I am a parcel of vain strivings
tied," verse, 506.
"I am bound, I am bound for a dis-
tant shore," verse, 2.
"I am the autumnal sun," verse,
499.
"I hearing get, who had but ears,"
verse, 460.
"I make ye an offer," verse, 86.
"I sailed up a river with a pleasant
wind," verse, 2.
"I wish to sing the Atridæ," verse,
Iliad, enduring beauty of the, 120.
"In vain I see the morning rise,"
verse, 453.
Indian, crowding out of the, by
whites, 66; civilizing the, 69;
conversion of the, 102-106; cap-
ture of two Dunstable men, 216;
attacks, letters to Governor about
expected, 288, 289; captivity, es-
cape of Hannah Dustan and
others from, 422-427.
Infidelity, the real, 96.
Institutions, the burden of, 169.
Inward Morning, The, verse, 388.
Islands, 320.
"It doth expand my privacies,"
verse, 226.
Jamblichus, quoted, 229.
Jesus Christ, effect of the story of,
84; prince of Reformers and Rad-
icals, 177.
Johnson, Edward, quoted, 10.
Jones, Sir William, 192.
Josselyn, John, 33, 36.
Kreeshna, teachings of, 179-182.
Ladies' tresses, 22.
Lamprey eel, 38.
Lancaster (Mass.), 211.
"Lately, alas, I knew a gentle boy,"
verse, 343.
Lawrence (Mass.), 111.
"Let such pure hate still under-
prop," verse, 379.
Life, the world and, 385–392.
Lincoln (Mass.), 6.
Litchfield (N. H.), 253, 256, 282.
Londonderry (N. H.), 115, 333.
"Love once among roses," verse,
302.
"Love walking swiftly," verse,
"Lovely dove," verse, 299.
Lovewell, Captain, and his Indian
fight, 154; John, father of, 209;
219.
"Low-anchored cloud," verse, 249.
"Low in the eastern sky," verse,
58.
Lowell (Mass.), 4, 39, 40, 49, 106,
108, 110, 111, 144, 145, 279 280,
311, 312, 328.
Lyceum, the, 127.
Lydgate, John, quoted, 71.
Mad River, 108.
Manchester (N. H.), 111, 279, 311,
312; Mfg. Co., 322; 323, 328, 333,
341.
"Man's little acts are grand," verse,
Massabesic Lake, 111; Pond, 311.
Massachusetts, T.'s wish not to be
associated with, 168.
Mathematics, 477.
McGaw's Island, 303.
Meadow River, Musketaquid or, 9.
Melon, buying a, 414.
"Men are by birth equal in this,
that given," verse, 386.
"Men dig and dive, but cannot my
wealth spend," verse, 462.
Mencius, quoted, 347.
Menu, the Laws of, 192-200.
Merrimack (N. H.), 279, 282, 311,
437, 442, 483.
Merrimack River, 4, 9, 24, 77, 79, 100,
101; origin and course of the, 106-
114; 140, 152, 187, 211, 212, 217,
220, 224, 234, 248, 250, 252, 253;
the Gazetteer quoted, 256; 260,
261, 279, 280, 282, 288, 312, 322,
323, 327, 334, 337, 383, 398, 427,
438; freshet on the, 469; 473, 483.
Mice, visited by, on Hoosack Moun-
tain, 244.
Middlesex (Mass.), 77, 100, 280,
Mikania, the climbing, 55.
Mytholog,, ancient history, 75.
Names of places, longing for Eng-
lish, 68.
Nashua (N. H.), 108, 110, 111, 144,
157, 188, 190, 211, 212, 215, 222,
483; river, the, 463.
Naticook Brook, 282.
Nashville (N. H.), 218, 222.
Natural life, the, 500.
Nature, adorned, 23; laws of, for
man, 42; indifference of, 145;
provisions of, for end of her crea
tures, 293; tame and wild, 417;
and Art, 419; composing her poem
Autumn, 498.
"Nature doth have her dawn each
day," verse, 375.
"Nature has given horns," verse,
Nesenkeag, 256.
New England life, the Arcadian ele-
Nests, fishes', 30.
ment in, 318.
New Hampshire, 106; for the An-
tipodes, leaving, 189; man, a, 262;
line, crossing the, 466.
New Testament, the, 89-93; 177;
Newbury (Mass.), 108.
practicalness of, 182.
Newburyport (Mass.), 109, 111.
Newfound Lake, 108, 111.
News, getting the, from ocean steam-
Newspapers, reading, on Hoosack
ers, 314.
Night, thoughts in the, 438.
Mountain, 241.
Nine-Acre Corner, 6.
Night-fall, 47-51; 146.
North Adams (Mass.), 235.
North Bridge, 18, 20, 41.
Ministers, on Monday morning, 153. North or Assabeth River, 4.
Monadnock Mountain, 216.
MONDAY, 151-232.
Monuments, graveyards and, 220;
descendants more dead than, 334.
Moore's Falls, 303.
Moosehillock, 107.
Morning, impressions of, 53.
Music, the suggestions of, 227-230.
Musketaquid or Grass-ground River,
the, 3, 9.
"My books I'd fain cast off, I can-
not read," verse, 397.
"My life has been the poem I would
have writ," verse, 453.
"Now chiefly is my natal hour,"
verse, 226.
Observatory on Hoosack Mountain,
the, 244.
"Oft, as I turn me on my pillow
o'er," verse, 474.
On Himself, verse, 299.
On a Silver Cup, verse, 298.
On His Lyre, verse, 298.
On Love, verse, 300.
On Lovers, verse, 301.
"On Ponkawtasset, since we took
our way," verse, 20.
Oriental and Occidental, 183;
exclusion of the,
learning, 185; qualit, in New
England life, the, 319.
Ossian, 453-459, 485.
Otternic Pond, 211.
Priest, physician and, 338.
Prose, a poem in, 499.
Pythagoras, quoted, 418.
Quarles, Francis, quoted, 15.
"Our uninquiring corpses lie more Raleigh, Sir Walter, as a master of
"Packed in my mind lie all the Religion and ligature, 80, 99.
clothes," verse, 388.
Pan not dead, 81.
Pasaconaway, 332, 334.
Past, darkness of the, 204.
Pawtucket Falls, the lock-keeper at,
100; Dam, 110; Canal, deepening
the, 326.
Pelham (N. H.), 115.
Pembroke (N. Í.), 154.
Pemigewasset, the, 106, 107, 110,
412; basin on the, 324.
Penacook, now Concord (N. H.),
founding of, 399.
Penichook Brook, 222, 251, 463.
Pennyroyal, 337.
Perch, the common, 32.
Persius Flaccus, Aulus, 405-412.
Philosophy, Asiatic, 175; loftiness
of the Oriental, 178.
Physician, priest and, 338.
Pickerel, the, 36.
Saddleback Mountain, 234.
Sadi, quoted, 87, 99, 401; the life of,
by Dowlat Shah, quoted, 512.
St. Ann's of Concord voyageurs,
Ball's Hill, the, 24.
Salmon, 39, 113, 114.
Salmon Brook, 208, 209, 463; Love-
well's house on, 426.
"Salmon Brook," verse, 463.
Pilgrim's Progress, the best sermon, Sand, tracts of, near Nashua, 189;
Pinnacle, Hooksett, 394, 398.
Piscataquoag, 108, 322.
Plaistow (N. H.), 230.
Plum Island, 107, 109, 260.
Plutarch, quoted, 228.
"Ply the oars! away! away!"
verse, 234.
Plymouth (N. H.), 110.
Poet and poems, the, 449-453; 494-
497.
Poetry, the nature of, 116-122; the
mysticism of mankind, 433.
Poet's Delay, The, verse, 453.
Political conditions and news, 166.
Polygonum, 22.
Poukawtasset, 20.
in Litchfield, N. H., 259, 260; on
Plum Island, 260-262.
Sanjay, quoted, 184.
Satire and poetry, 406-408.
SATURDAY, 15–51.
Savage instinct, the, 69.
Scene-shifter, the, 146.
Science, 477-482.
Scriptures of the world, 187.
"Sea and land are but his neigh-
bors," verse, 346.
Seeds, the use of, 161.
Shad, 39, 44; train-band nicknamed
the, 41; 113, 114.
Shadows, 464.
Sheep, alarm of a flock of, 393.
Shelburne Falls, 325.
Sherman's Bridge, 4.
Shiner, the, 35.
Short's Falls, 320.
Silence, 515-518.
"Since that first Away! Away !'"
verse, 248.
Skies, the, 473.
Smith, Capt. John, quoted, 114.
Smith's River, 108.
Snake-head, 22.
Soapwort gentian, the, 22.
Society Islanders, gods of, 69, 82.
Soldier, a young, 413.
"Some tumultuous little rill,"
verse, 77.
Sophocles, the Antigone of, quoted,
173.
Souhegan, 108, 442; or Crooked
River, 287.
South Adams (Mass.), 238.
Southborough (Mass.), 4.
Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 441.
Springs, river-feeding, 252.
Squam (N. H.), 107, 108, 111.
Squirrel, the chipping or striped,
255; the red, or chickaree, the
Hudson Bay, 256.
Stark, Gen. John, 333.
Staten Island, view from, 236; look-
ing at ships from, 314.
Sturgeon River, Merrimack or, 106,
146.
"Such near aspects had we," verse,
"Such water do the gods distil,"
verse, 107.
Suckers, common and horned, 37.
Sudbury (Mass.), 4, 5, 6, 45, 66;
early church of, described by
Johnson, 11.
Sudbury River, 4.
Suncook, 108.
SUNDAY, 53-149.
Sunday, the keeping of, 79, 95.
Sun-fish, Bream, or Ruff, the fresh-
water, 30-32.
Sunrise on Hoosack Mountain, 246.
Sunset, 513-515.
Swamp, the luxury of standing in a,
"That Phaeton of our Day," 128.
"The Good how can we trust?"
verse, 371.
"The respectable folks," verse, 8.
"The smothered streams of love,
which flow," verse, 345.
"The waves slowly beat," verse, 284.
"The western wind came lumbering
in," verse, 224.
"Then idle Time ran gadding by,"
verse, 226.
"Then spend an age in whetting thy
desire," verse, 138.
"There is a vaie which none hath
seen, verse, 229.
"Therefore a torrent of sadness
deep," verse, 227.
"This is my Carnac, whose un-
measured dome," verse, 331.
Thoreau, Henry David, started on
week's river journey, 15; ascent
of Hoosack Mountain, 235-248;
experience with an uncivil moun-
taineer, 264-273; invited to do
various sorts of work, 401; began
return voyage, 415.
Thoreau, John, brother, lines to, 2,
15; brings Nathan, a country
boy, to the boat, 382.
Thornton's Ferry, 217, 282, 287.
"Thou, indeed, dear swallow,"
verse, 298.
"Thou sing'st the
Thebes," verse, 299.
"Though all the fates should prove
unkind," verse, 189.
"Thracian colt, why at me," verse,
301.
THURSDAY, 393-439.
"Thus, perchance, the Indian hunt-
Time, measurement of the world's,
er," verse, 306.
To a Dove, verse, 299.
To a Colt, verse, 301.
To a Swallow, verse, 298, 301.
Traveling, the profession of, 403.
Trinity, the, 88.
"True kindness is a pure divine
affinity," verse, 342.
TUESDAY, 233–307.
Truth, contact with, 384.
"Turning the silver," verse, 298.
Turpentine makers, Indian capture
of, 216.
Tyngsborough (Mass.), origin of,
141; 142, 147, 153, 158, 189, 212,
216, 403, 466, 468, 472, 474.
Unappropriated Land, the, 414.
Uncannunuc, 211, 255, 336, 337, 383,
394, 398, 415.
Uncivil men, 263-273.
Union Canal, the, 303.
View, the point of, 460.
Varro, quoted, 471.
Virgil, quoted, 116.
Wachusett Mountain, 211, 216.
Wamesit, 102.
Walton of Concord River, the, 27.
Wannalancet, 333, 334.
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