Maple, red or swamp, 6, 35, 108;
7, 8, 21, 28, 41, 57, 79, 89, 102,
297; 9, 7; 317-322, 325.
Maple, sugar, 5, 58, 199; 9, 7, 320,

322-341.

Maple, white, 6, 88; 8, 177.
Maples, autumn colors of, 2, 372;
sprung from seed, 6, 361; 7, 8,
37, 53, 148, 169, 345; 8, 87; also,
250, 306, 371.

Maps of Cape Cod and New Eng-
land, 4, 274-278, 282, 283.
Marañon, the river, 9, 116.
March, scenery, 5, 125; phenomena,
210; inclemency, 276.

Marigold, 6, 152.

17, 318; Indian meaning of, 192.
Mattawamkeag Point, 3, 3, 11, 45,
107, 393, 397.

Matungamook Lake, 3, 367.
Maturing, no need of haste towards,
2,502.

Maxims. See Aphorisms.
"Maxims of State," Sir Walter
Raleigh's, 8, 146.
Maynard's, 7, 315.
Mayweed, 6, 230.
Meadow-hen, 6, 155.
Meadow-larks, 9, 462.
Meadow-mouse, its tracks on snow,
8, 39, 314, 316.

Meadow River, Musketaquid or,
1, 9.

84, 247; 9, 444.

Marlborough (Mass.), 9, 262.

252, 365; dull straw-color, 7, 346;
8, 390.

Meadow-sweet, 6, 160, 195, 245,
365; 7, 447.

Marriage, a sign of, 3, 288.

Mars' Hill, 3, 7.

Marsh, in Heywood's meadow,

8,

Meadow-walk, 8, 372.

Mean, the golden, 6, 349.

Meander, 7, 117.

Meanness, 5, 331; 6, 262.

Measures, 6, 190.

Medeola, 6, 14, 43.
Medeola berries, 7, 25.
Medfield (Mass.), 6, 36.

Medicinal recipes of last century
foolish, 8, 406.

Meeting between men, 8, 413.
Mel-dews, 6, 79.
Melilot, 6, 365.
Melilotus leucantha, 6, 365.
Melody, 7, 298.

Melon, buying a, 1, 414.
Melvin, 7, 375, 380, 424.
Melvin's Preserve, 7, 9.
Memory, 6, 62, 98.

Men, 8, 259; their indifference to
nature, 8, 110; a company of,
uncongenial to T., 135, 160; their
consideration for their relation to
mankind, 183; assistance to, 213;
aboriginal, 228; arduousness of
meeting, 237; their opinion of
God, 262; barrier of a relation
before, 281; also, 159. See Man.
"Men are by birth equal in this,
that given," verse, 1, 386.
"Men dig and dive but cannot m
wealth spend," verse, 1, 462.
Menagerie, a, 6, 238.
Menander, 5, 1.

Mencius, quoted, 1, 347; 2, 342.
Menhaden, schools of, 4, 142.
Mentors, of little use, 2, 17.

Merrimack (N. H.), 1, 279, 282,
311, 437, 442, 483.
Merrimack River, 1, 4, 9, 24, 77,
79, 100, 101; origin and course of
the, 100-114; 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; 6, 284; 7, 117; 9, 181.
Mice, visited by, on Hoosack Moun-
tain, 1, 244; tracks, 8, 182.
Michaux on Lumbering, quoted, 3,
57.

Michaux, André, quoted, 9, 269.
Michaux, François André, quoted,
9, 271, 320, 370.

Middlesex (Mass.), 1, 77, 100, 280,
476.

Middlesex Cattle Show, 2, 54.
Midnight, exploring the, 9, 397.
Migration, interior, 5, 195; 7, 270.
Migratory birds, 7, 156; instinct
felt by T., 8, 247.
Mikania, the climbing, 1, 55.
Mildew, 6, 79, 174.

Miles, C., 7, 232.

Minding my business, till ineligible
as town-officer, 2, 31.
Minerva, Momus objects to house of,
2, 55.

Mingan settlements, the, in Labra-
dor, 9, 114.

Ministerial lot, 7, 292.
Ministerial Swamp, 5, 127, 200; 7,
19, 136, 304, 322; 8, 131.
Ministers, on Monday morning, 1,
153; with, on Ktaadn, 3, 265;
salaries of country, 4, 52; some
old Cape Cod, 55-64; 7, 281. See
Clergy and Preachers.

Mink, 5, 87, 122, 234; 7, 265, 372,
401.

Minnows, 6, 127, 257.

Minot's Ledge, the light on, 4, 318,
319.

Minott, 5, 32, 95, 104; 7, 55, 57; an
ideal farmer, 61; a pleasing figure
in nature, 223; adorns whatever
part of nature he touches, 226,
250, 255; his house, 334; 355, 380;
wood-lot, 417; on the habit of a
fox, 8, 104; a deer seen eighty
years ago, 220; the cold Friday,
226; his ear for note of a migra-
tory bird, 276; shooting of an
otter seen by, 338.
Minott, C., 7, 376.

Minott, Deacon George, 7, 309.
Minott, Thomas, 7, 376.
Minott's meadow, 8, 163.
Minstrelsy, heroes of, 8, 37.

7, 306, 437; 8, 126, 296.

Miles, Mrs., 6, 128.

Miles swamp, 6, 123; 7, 29, 275.
Milford (Me.), 3, 7.

Milk-weed, 6, 277; 7, 143; seeds,
9, 463.

Milky Way? Is not our planet in
the, 2, 208.

Mill, cobweb drapery of, 7, 127, 381.
Mill Brook, 8, 6, 163.
Mill-dam, 8, 55.
Miller, Hugh, 7, 32.
Miller, a crabbed, 9, 85.
Millinocket Lake, 3, 34, 48, 88, 322,

323.

Millinocket River, 3, 34, 36, 37, 104,
105, 106, 275.

Milne, Alexander, quoted, 9, 236,
237.

Milton, loftiness of, compared with
Raleigh's characteristics, 8, 145;
Greeks had no geniuses like, 279.
Minnermus, 5, 1.
Min, 7, 385.

Mir Camar Uddîn Mast, quoted, 2,
157.

229-

Mirabeau, on highway robbery,
quoted, 2, 497.
Miraculous, the, 6, 75.
Mirages, on sand and sea, 4,
231; constancy of, 8, 359.
Mission, verse, 10, 364.
Missions, American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign, 10, 209.
Mississippi, discovery of the, 9,
111, 112; extent of the, 116;
panorama of the, 274.
Missouri Compromise, 10, 196.
Mist, glaucous effect of, 6, 7, 38; on
the river, 133, 148, 154; latent
light in the, 8, 73; also, 137.
Misunderstanding, honest, 5, 72.
Mitchella repens (partridge-berry),
6, 200, 216, 319; 7, 279, 311.
Mocking-bird, 6, 137; will the tele-
graph harp affect his song? 8,
231.

Model farm, a, 2, 308.

"Modern improvements," an illu-

sion about, 2, 84.
"Modern Painters," 7, 76.
Modesty, 6, 109.

Mohawk Rips, the, 3, 400.
Mohawk traditions, 3, 183.
Moisture in Cape Cod air, 4, 198.
Molasses, Molly, 3, 214.
Mole, 5, 8; star-nosed, 6, 56.
Moles, a burrow made under young
pines by, 8, 47; no indigenous
animal bigger than a, on Nan-
tucket, 48.

Molunkus (Me.), 3, 14, 16.
Moment, its spur should be obeyed,
8, 255.

Minerva's

Momus, objection to
house by, 2, 55.
Monadnock Mountain, 1, 216; 6,
16, 175, 247, 252; 7, 25; 9, 4,
175, 178, 180.

MONDAY, 1, 151-232.

Money, lending, 5, 37; common
idea of, 315; necessity to get,
8, 343; making, the evil of, 10,
257-260.

Monhegan Island, 3, 114.
Monson (Me.), 3, 117, 118, 197.
Montaigne, his form of writing, 8,

265.

Montcalm, Wolfe and, monument
to, 9, 90, 91.

Montmorenci County, 9, 76, 77;
the habitans of, 79-84.
Montmorenci, Falls of, 9, 36, 46-
48.

Montreal (Que.), 9, 10, 13; de-
scribed, 17-19; the mixed popu-
lation of, 21; from Quebec to,
120; and its surroundings, beau-
tiful view of, 122; the name of,

122.

Monuments, graveyards and, 1, 220;
descendants more dead than, 334;
good sense worth more than, 2,
92, 93.

Moods, 7, 209; relation between
dreams and, 8, 9; one the
critic of another, 82; irritable,
83.

Moon, 6, 98; and the clouds, 233,
280; rise of, 280; reflected in
water, 117, 120, 131, 333, 353; 7,
76, 260.

Moon, The, verse, 10, 362.
Moonlight, walk by, 5, 78; a sand-
bank by, 6, 95, 118; woodland
paths by, 97; water by, 117, 120;
age of the world's history, the,
118; beauty of, where best seen,

133; writing by, 176; compared
to cream, 177; consciousness by,
177; causeway by, 234; descrip-
tions of walks, 239; and sunlight,
334; shadows of trees by, 341
simplicity of, 7, 3; on the river,
76; reflected from frost crystals,
256; 8, 203, 215, 320, 322; reading
by, 9, 178; 423, 424; influence
of, 452.

MOONLIGHT, NIGHT AND, 9, 397-409.
Moonshine, 9, 399.
Moore, Thomas, 9, 122.
Moore's Falls, 1, 303.
Moore's Swamp, 7, 57.
Moose, sign of, 3, 67, 75, 131; car
cass of a, 132; night expedition
in vain hunt of a, 134-139; shoot-
ing at and wounding a, 148-151;
found, measured, and skinned,
152-157; Indian ideas about,
187; Indian tradition of
evolution of, from the whale,
200; shooting and skinning a, on
Second Lake, 363-367; 5, 104;
7, 193; disappearance of the, 8,
285.

Moose River, 3, 233; 6, 304.
Moose-flies, 3, 305.
Moosehead Lake, 3, 54, 88, 114,
115, 118, 119; steamers and sail-
boats on, 121; 126, 130, 141, 177,
183, 185, 186; Indian name for,
190; 195, 215, 216, 223; extent of,
225; 227, 232, 238, 285, 289, 312;
dragon-fly on, 316; 338, 371, 401.
Moosehillock, 1, 107.
Moosehorn Dead-water, 3, 132.
Moosehorn Stream, the, 3, 134, 137,
141, 143, 177, 267.
Moose-wardens, laxness of, 3, 286.
Moose-wood, 3, 79; phosphorescent
light in, 245.

Moral element in compositions, 8,

138.

Morality not healthy, 8, 139.
Morning, impressions of, 1, 53;

work, a man's, 2, 59; renewal
of, 140-142; work in the early,
243; ambrosial, 5, 99; philoso-
phizing in, 157; in spring, 201-
203; influence of, 315, 316; in hot
weather, 6, 161; an endless, 341;
waking in the, 345; a winter, 8,
128, 137, 258, 259; winter, early,
9, 200-203; landscape, early, 422.
See Sunrise.
Morning-glory, 6, 200, 230.
Morrison, John, head of a lumber
gang, 3, 45.

cord, 2, 53.

Morton, S. G., 6, 235.

Morton, Thomas, quoted, 9, 1.
Moses, 7, 281.

Mosquitoes, 3, 304, 386, 387; 6, 39,65.
Mosses, 7, 138, 169, 227, 234, 276,

293, 324, 363; on a misty day, 8,
75; beauty in, 231.
Moth, cecropia, 6, 15

Moth, emperor, 5, 5; 6, 51.
Moth, luna, 6, 257.
Moth, sphynx, 6, 55.

Moths, seeking neighborhood of
water, 8, 410.
Motion, 7, 439.

Motions in Nature the circulations
of God, 8, 52.
Mount Adams, 6, 288.

Mount Ararat in Provincetown, 4,
229.

Mount Chocorua, 6, 286, 287.
Mount Holly (Vt.), 9, 6.
Mount Lafayette, 6, 305, 311.
Mount Misery, 5, 294, 321; 6, 145.
Mount Monadnock, 6, 16, 175, 247,
252; 7, 25. See Monadnock.
Mount Royal (Montreal), 9, 13.
Mount Tabor, 5, 288.

Mount Wachusett, 6, 11, 96; 7, 131,
354, 359.

Mount Washington, 6, 288, 289; 8,
69; ownership of its top, 110.

Mount Watatic, 6, 247.

Mus leucopus (Arvida Emmonsii), 5,
130; 7, 276.

Music, the suggestions of, 1, 227-
230; history of, 5, 85; of the
streams, 124; for the virtuous, 6,
43; from a quart pot, 79; to be
listened to religiously, 108; arti-
ficial, 132, 153, 170, 232; of the
cow-bell, 212; should awaken re-
flections, 232; vocal, a natural ex-
pression, 233; God's voice, 258;
of life, 265; of the spheres, 314;
7, 35, 36; of distant sounds, 97,
378; a band of, 119; a luxury,
120; revolutionary, 120; a striv
ing to express character, 252;
helping the flow of thought, 291;
pure in proportion to its distance,
378; 8, 41; equanimity of, 139;
the reformer, 140; power of, 172,
181, 335; of the telegraph wire,
232; the crystallization of sound,
340; sphere-, 340; in wind and
rain, 353; not intermittent, 353;
apostrophe to, 413. See Earth-
song, Sounds.

"Musical sand," 7, 4.
Musketaquid, Grass-ground, Prairie,
or Concord River, the, 1, 3, 9; 7,
117, 174, 193; 8, 64, 65; trees,
199; hunter cannot be spared
from its meadows, 227; 9, 141.
Musketicook, 8, 326.

16, 181.

Mountain-tops, 3, 86.

Mountains, 6, 27, 311; distant, 7,
25, 130, 143, 214, 263; views from,
130; in a dream, 175; towering
above the rain, 301; color of, 8,
14; outline of, 40; the use of, 9,
181, 182; and plain, influence of
the, 185, 186.

Mourt's Relation, quoted, 4, 42, 111,

303.

Mouse in T.'s house, 2, 351; the
wild, 433; nests, 5, 74, 130, 142;
7, 276, 297, 385; deer-, 368; 8,
152; its track in snow, 183; also,
316, 419.

Mouse-ear, the, 9, 431.
Mouse-ear chickweed (cerastium),
7, 283, 318.
Mud-hen, 6, 155.

Mud Pond, 3, 288, 289, 294, 295, 297,
301-303.

Mullein, 5, 295; 6, 185, 261, 271,
350; 7, 279.

Munroe, J., & Co., 7, 163, 339.

262; in Goose Pond, 420; 5, 11,
69, 95, 109, 113, 162, 335; paths,
75, 235, 268; houses, 219, 234;
nest, 268; 6, 316; houses of, 7,
77. 79, 111, 115, 118, 218, 224, 228,
239, 249, 250, 255, 372, 376; diet
of, 78, 250, 354, 371-373, 452'; gal-
leries of, 376; 8, 33; swimming, 35;
conspicuous in winter, 67; clam-
shells left by, 296; houses of, 301;
306, 374; heroism, 341; also, 132,
225, 228, 229; 9, 141-144.
Musquash, calling a, 3, 282; track
of the, 9, 435. See Musk-rats.
Mussel, 9, 159.

Mussel, fresh-water (fresh-water
clam), 7, 78, 250.

"My books I'd fain cast off, I can-
not read," verse, 1, 397.
"My life has been the poem I would
have writ," verse, 1, 453.

"My life is like a stroll upon the
beach," verse, 1, 317.

"My love must be as free," verse,
1, 369.

Myosotis laxa, 6, 109.
Myrtle birds, 7, 137; 9, 414.
Myself, 8, 316, 317, 347, 363.
Mythology, ancient history, 1, 75;
meanings put into old, 8, 41; also,
396.

Nacre, 5, 11.
Naevia, 8, 36.
Nagog Pond, 9, 447.
Nahant (Mass.), 3, 208.

Names, of places, longing for Eng-
lish, 1, 68; 6, 122; 7, 273; at
most a convenience, 8, 406; poetry
in, 9, 24; of places, French, 70,
71; men's, 289-291; of colors,
335, 336.

Nantasket (Mass.), 4, 17; 8, 29, 46.
Nashawtuck, 6, 10, 45, 81, 153, 170,
196; 7, 3, 174, 198.

Nashua (N. H.), 1, 108, 110, 111,

144, 157, 188, 190, 211, 212, 215,
222; cracks in ground at, 8, 12.
Nashua River, the, 1, 463, 483; 7,
449; 9, 170, 185.

Nashville (N. H.), 1, 218, 222.
Naticook Brook, 1, 282.
Natural History, Science does not
go beyond the shell in, 8, 406;
reading books of, 9, 127, 129.
NATURAL HISTORY OF MASSACHU-
SETTS, 9, 127-162.
Natural life, the, 1, 500.
Natural objects should belong to

the public, 8, 109.

Nature, adorned, 1, 23; laws of, for
man, 42; indifference of, 145; pro-
visions of, for end of her crea-
tures, 293; tame and wild, 417;
and Art, 419; composing her poem
Autumn, 498; adapted to our
weakness as to our strength, 2,
20; a liberty in, 202; no melan-
choly or solitude in the midst of,
205-207; the medicines of, 216;
known only as a robber by the
farmer, 258; men who become a
part of, 328; questions and an-
swers of, 436; our knowledge of
the laws of, 448; helping lay the
keel of, 467; principle of opera-
tions of, 475; man's need of, 489;
the earth as made by, 3, 94; al-
ways young, 109; the coarse use
of, 162; and man, preference "de
gustibus," 5, 15; and science, 26;
healing power of, 129; originality
of, 138; her methods must be
studied, 166; voice of, 170; primi-
tive, 217; her laws immutable but

not rigid, 265; glorified by men,
342; beheld only by the virtuous, 6,
43; 46, 47; no excess in, 99; 107;
man in, 110; moderate and deliber-
ate, 132; a careful gardener, 143;
perception of, due to physical and
moral condition, 198; longing for
wild, 212; must be associated with
human affections, 267; 280; phases
of, 7, 11; the only panacea, 13;
her suppleness and cleanliness, 74;
Ruskin's descriptions of, 76; a
pensioner of, 134; Ruskin's rela
tion to, 180; changes effected by
man in, 204; always novel out
doors, 212; swift to repair damage
done by man, 212; scenes exhib-
ited by, 234; a home in, 258, 454;
gradation and harmony in, 266;
genial to man, 315; winter colors
of, 383; confidence and success of,
415; serenity and immortality
of, 433; preaches practical truth,
436; the study of, 439; adjustment
of, 8, 6; overlooks man's profan-
ity, 18; full of resources, 71; re-
wards of, 72; T.'s love for, 106,
135; most men indifferent to,
110; the moderate nymph, 137;
avenging power in, 147; man's
relation to, 236; exclamations not
made by, 257; made to repeat
herself, 309; demeanor of, 317;
also, 15, 105, 126, 231; health to
be found in, 9, 129; man's work
the most natural compared with
that of, 146; the hand of, upon
her children, 153; different meth-
ods of work, 154; the civilized
look of, 172; the winter purity of,
204; a hortus siccus in, 218, 219;
men's relation to, 296; finding
God in, 438.

"Nature doth have her dawn each
day," verse, 1, 375.
"Nature has given horns," verse,
1,300.

Naumburgia thyrsiflora, 6, 87. See
Loosestrife.

Nauset Harbor, in Orleans, 4, 34, 74.
Nauset Lights, 4, 46.
Naushon, 6, 250; pheasants on, 8,
29.

Nawshawtuck, 7, 3, 174, 198; 8,
128, 430. See Lee's Hill.
Nawshaw tuck Hill, 9, 384.
Nebraska Bill, the, 10, 190.
Necessaries of life, 2, 21.
Necessity, a seeming fate, commonly
called, 2, 11.