of, 6, 101, 108, 134; under side | Mattawamkeag, the, 3, 12, 13, 14, of, 218, 244, 318.
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,
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.
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.
Marlboro' road, 6, 90, 91; 7, 83, Meadows, 5, 160, 179, 251; 6, 244,
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.
Marsh, in Heywood's meadow,
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.
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.
Miles, Martial, 5, 243, 268; 6, 127; Mint, 7, 148.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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,
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,
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.
Mortgages, their abundance in Con- | Murch Brook, 3, 70, 77, 89.
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.
Mountain-ash, 3, 116; 6, 18, 299; 7, Musk-rats (musquash), colony of, 2,
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,
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
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.
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