503.

Advertisements, the best part of

newspapers, 241.

Agassiz, Louis, 32, 39.

Agiocochook, 414.

Beaumont, Francis, quoted, 86.
Beaver River, 115.

Bedford (Mass.), 4, 47; petition of
planters of, 63; 66, 77.

Bedford (N. H.), 306, 307, 311, 312.

din," verse, 18.

Alewives, 39, 113, 114.

"All things are current found,"
verse, 512.

Amesbury (Mass.), 108, 110.
Amonoosuck, the, 414.
Amoskeag Falls, 322, 323, 417.
Amoskeag (N. H.), 324, 325, 326,
336, 339, 381.

"An early unconverted saint,"
verse, 53.
Anacreon,

295-297; translations
from, 298-302.

Andover (Mass.), 155.

Antiquities, 327, 330–332.

234, 249.

Bellows, valley called the, 235.
Bellows Falls (Vt.), 113.

Bells, the sound of Sabbath, 97.
Bhagvat-Geeta, the, quoted, 175;

pure thought of the, 177; beauty
of the, 184, 191.

Bibles of several nations, the, 90.
Billerica (Mass.), 4, 39, 40, 44, 47,
54; age of the town of, 61; 64, 66,
77, 148, 483.

Biography, autobiography the best,
204.

Biscuit Brook, 469.
Bittern, the, 309.

"Apple tree, Elisha's," 470.
Aristotle, quoted, 165, 476.
Armchairs for fishermen, 113.
Arrow-head, 22.

Art and nature, 419.
Assabeth River, North or, 4.
Astronomy, 507-510.
Atlantides, The, verse, 345.
Aubrey, John, quoted, 139.
Autumn, the coming of, 441; flow-
ers of, 466-468; 498.

Average ability, man's success in
proportion to his, 166.
"Away! away! away! away!"
verse, 231.

Baboosuck Brook, 287.

Background, all lives want a, 57.
Baker's River, 108, 333.

Ball's Hill, 24, 46, 54.

Bass-tree, the, 207.

16.

Boat-building, 283.

Boatmen, the pleasant lives of, 273-
280.

Books, the reading and writing of,
115-140.

Botta, Paul Emile, quoted, 133, 162.
Bound Rock, 6.

Bradford (N. H.), 469.
Brahm, the bringing to earth of
176.

Brahman, virtue of the, 182.
Bream, the, 30–32.

Britannia's Pastorals, quoted, 151.
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 86.
Buddha and Christ, 85.
Buried money, 258.

"But since we sailed," verse, 19.
Buttrick's Plain, 64.

tion, 18.

Canal, an old, 78.

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. See Chivin.
Cranberry Island, 6.

Dace. See Chivin.
Daggers, looking, 29.
De Monts, Sieur, quoted, 53.
Discovery, inner, 505.

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
of, 218; quoted, 141, 157.
Dustan, Hannah, escape with nurse
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.
End of Nature's creatures, the, 293.
Epitaphs, 221.

Extemporaneous living, 410.
Eyes, movement of the, 100.

Fable, the universal appeal of, 72;
the Christian, 84.

Fair Haven, a canal boat on, 278.
Farwell of Dunstable, 217-219, 258.
Fisherman, the, 26; Account Cur-

rent of a, 41.

Fishes, the nature of, 28.
Fish-hawk, the, 255.
Flea, deserts made by bite of a, 259.
Floating in a skiff as if in mid-air, 60.
Flowers, autumn, 466.

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,

341.

Graveyards, monuments and, 220.
Great Meadows, the, 3, 20.

"Greece, who am I that should re-
member thee," verse, 68.
Griffith's Falls, 320.
Groton (Mass.), 211.

Hafiz, quoted, 512.

Half lives, how the other, 282.
Hampstead (N. H.), 230, 250.
Harebell, the, 114.

Hastings, Warren, quoted, 177, 178.
Haverhill (Mass.), 108, 109, 110, 111,
230, 250; historian of, quoted,
399; 422.
Haystack, the, 107.
Haze, 284.

Heaven, 501-504.

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,
298.

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.

Kearsarge, 107.

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,
300.

"Lovely dove," verse, 299.
Lovewell, Captain, and his Indian

Manchester (N. H.), 111, 279, 311,
312; Mfg. Co., 322; 323, 328, 333,
341.

"Man's little acts are grand," verse,
279.

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,
476.

Mikania, the climbing, 55.

My life is like a stroll upon the
beach," verse, 317.

"My love must be as free," verse,
369.

Mythology, 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.
Nashville (N. H.), 218, 222.
Naticook Brook, 282.
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,

300.

Nesenkeag, 256.
Nests, fishes', 30.

New England life, the Arcadian ele-
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;
practicalness of, 182.
Newbury (Mass.), 108.
Newburyport (Mass.), 109, 111.
Newfound Lake, 108, 111.
News, getting the, from ocean steam-
ers, 314.
Newspapers, reading, on Hoosack
Mountain, 241.

Night, thoughts in the, 438.
Night-fall, 47-51; 146.
Nine-Acre Corner, 6.
North Adams (Mass.), 235.
North Bridge, 18, 20, 41.

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 a Silver Cup, verse, 298.
On Himself, verse, 299.
On His Lyre, verse, 298.
On Love, verse, 300.
On Lovers, verse, 301.
"On Ponkawtasset, since we took
our way," verse, 20.