Carpenter, William Benjamin, 5, 84. Cedar Hill, 7, 426.
Carrion flower, 6, 123, 242.
Carrot, 6, 317.
Carry, Indian's method with canoe
at a, 3, 255, 256; a wet, 291-303;
berries at each, 379, 380; race at
a, 390-392.
Cars, light from reflector of, 8, 321;
passage of, 321.
Cartier, Jacques, 9, 9; and the St.
Lawrence, 111, 112; quoted, 120,
121, 122.
Cartridge-box, museum begun with
a, 8, 110.
Caryatides, gossips leaning against
barn like, 2, 263.
Cassandra ponds, 8, 188.
Castilleja, 6, 14. See Painted cup.
Cat, the Collins's, 2, 71; in the
woods, domestic and "winged,"
361-363; 6, 130; 7, 36, 52, 180,
328, 385, 422; wild-, 340.
Catbird, 6, 41; nesto of the, 7, 413;
the, 9, 412.
Catbrier, 6, 27.
Catchfly, 6, 5.
Caterpillar, frozen, 8, 142, 375; co-
coons of the, 177; on the ice, 246,
247, 392.
Catkins, 5, 33, 103, 106, 191, 212,
296; in the wilderness, 8, 94;
alder, 97, 155, 370; willow, 133,
252, 256, 364, 370, 392.
Catnip, 7, 396.
Cato Major, quoted, 2, 101, 132,
133, 258, 376; 7, 88; on farming,
8, 175, 176; prescription for oxen,
194; sacrificial feasts, 195; heating
a brick, 195; thinning a conse-
crated grove, 195; motives for
reading his works, 370; 9, 440.
Cat-owl, 7, 7, 292; call of tlie, 8, 41.
Cat-tail, its down, 5, 216; 8, 248.
Cattle, 6, 132, 146, 186, 209, 219,
271; 7, 72, 100, 235, 259, 328; pres-
ence of to-day felt by, 8, 53.
Cattle-show, the Concord, 1, 443-
447; men at a, 9, 225.
Caucomgomoc Lake, 3, 275.
Caucomgomoc Mountain, 3, 288.
Caucomgomoc Stream, 3, 173, 180;
Indian meaning of, 191; River,
271, 307; 283, 316, 369.
Causeway, 7, 429; crossing, on
skates, 8, 326.
Caves, birds do not sing in, 2, 47.
Cawing of crows on mild days, 8,
164, 296; about their ancient seat,
297.
Cedar Swamp, 6, 89.
Cedar-tea, arbor-vita or, 3, 73.
Celandine, 5, 227.
Celebrating, men, a committee
arrangements, always, 2, 508.
Celestial Empire, conditions of suc-
cessful trade with, 2, 33.
Cellar, a burrow to which house is
but a porch, 2, 72.
Cellini, Benvenuto, quoted, 2, 316.
Cemetery of fallen leaves, 9, 331.
Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed),
6, 36; 7, 283, 318.
Cerastium viscosum, 7, 283.
Chairs for society, three, 2, 218.
Chaleur, Bay of, 3, 220; 9, 112.
Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, 5, 249; in
criticism of Coleridge, 9, 398.
Chamberlain Farm, the, 3, 303, 327,
328.
Chamberlain Lake, 3, 122, 177, 197,
289, 294, 296, 297; Apmoojenega-
mook or, 303; dams about, 312;
325, 332.
Chambly (Que.), 9, 13.
Champlain, Samuel, Voyages,
quoted, 4, 99; records and mapa
of, 274-282; quoted, 9, 9; whales
in map of, 113.
Change, 6, 326; 7, 121.
Change of air, 2, 493.
Channing, W. E., quoted, 1, 53, 57;
a lecture by, 8, 284, 285. See
W. E. C.
Chapman, George, quoted, 2, 55.
Character, 5, 22, 248; 6, 361; 7,
252, 350; tone given to, by respi-
ration, 8, 72.
Charity, cold, 4, 90; 5, 231.
Charles I., the only martyr in
Church of England liturgy, 10,
Charles River, 6, 355.
Charlesbourg (Que.), 9, 110.
Charlevoix, quoted, 9, 65, 113.
Chastity, the flowering of man, 2,
342; 5, 61; 6, 327, 342.
Chateau Richer, church of, 9, 57;
60; lodgings at, 73, 85.
Chateaubriand, quoted, 1, 171.
Chatham (Mass.), described, 4, 29.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, quoted, 1, 365,
417, 436; in praise of, 483-494;
quoted, 2, 331; regret of, for
grossness of earlier works, 8, 96;
quoted, 9 195, 196.
Chaudière River, the, 3, 47; 9, 26;
Falls of the, 86, 87.
Chavagnes, Captain, 6, 102.
Cheap men, 9, 36.
Cheapness, in ourselves, 5, 233.
Checkerberry-Tea Camp, 3, 375.
Chelmsford (Mass.), 1, 66, 78, 101,
106, 110, 114, 141, 333, 474, 483.
Chemistry, kinds of, compared, 8,
236.
Cheney's Shore, 7, 114.
Cherries, 6, 80, 202.
Cherry, red, 6, 299.
Cherry-bird, 6, 12, 84, 160, 198,
329.
Cherry-stones, transported by birds,
9, 230.
Chester (Me.), 3, 397.
Chestnut, 6, 257, 308, 317; 7, 94,
95, 110; fruit described, 122, 144,
146, 210, 404; burs, 8, 7.
CHESUNCOOK, 3, 112-213.
Chesuncook dead-water, 3, 268.
Chesuncook Lake, 3, 4, 11, 42, 88,
97, 104, 114, 126, 127, 141, 145,
165, 167; Indian meaning of, 191;
216; going to church on, 264; 290,
310, 315.
Chewink, 6, 23, 24, 39, 163; 9, 429.
Chickadee, coming of the, 2, 426;
5, 4, 6, 31, 34, 88, 100, 124, 200,
203, 294; nest of the, 6, 31; 7,
69, 92, 95, 102, 103, 114, 119, 187,
198, 210, 211, 226, 227, 229, 234,
335, 340, 365, 380, 409, 432; 8, 50,
122, 167, 178, 201, 295, 373, 391,
392, 419; 9, 134, 423.
Chickens, 6, 338.
Chickweed (stellaria media), 5, 195;
6, 36; 7, 318; chapter called,
8, 193; frost-bitten blossoms on,
311; in blossomn, 341. See Trien-
talis.
Chief end of man, 2, 15.
Chien, La Rivière au, 9, 69.
Children, 6, 79.
Chimaphila umbellata (umbelled
wintergreen, pipsissewa), 6, 5,
127, 314.
Chinquapin, 6, 38, 55. See Oak.
Chiogenes tea, 6, 299.
Chip-bird (chipping-sparrow, hair-
bird), 6, 9, 30, 153, 161, 170, 227,
281; 7, 68, 305.
Chipping-sparrow, the fork-tailed,
9, 410, 411. See Chip-bird.
Chips, 7, 341.
Chivin, Dace, Roach or Cousin
Trout, 1, 34; 3, 70, 387.
Chocorua (N. H.), 6, 280, 287.
Chokeberry, 6, 37.
Choke-cherries, 6, 65.
Cholmondeley, Thomas, 7, 355.
Chords, 7, 130.
Christ, 7, 281, 380, 382.
Christendom, 7, 457.
Christian, the, 7, 14; the modern,
10, 211; being a, 242.
Christianity, practical and radical,
1, 176; adopted as an improved
method of agri-culture, 2, 61.
Chrysalids, 5, 114.
Church, 7, 281, 284.
Church of England, 7, 180; prayer
for a martyr, 10, 243.
Churches, Catholic and Protestant,
9, 15-17; roadside, 57.
Cicada canicularis, 6, 137. See
Locust.
Cicada septendecim, 6, 137.
Cichorium intybus, 6, 355.
Cicindela, 5, 221; 7, 340. See Glow-
Cigar-smoke, the gods not to be ap-
peased with, 4, 47.
Cinnamon stone, found in Concord,
8, 102.
Cinquefoil (potentilla), 6, 39, 62,
153.
Cinquefoil, common, 6, 215.
Cinquefoil, crowded, 6, 157.
Cinquefoil, running, 6, 216.
Cinquefoil, silvery, or hoary, 6, 43,
215.
Circulating library, 2, 165.
Circus, 7, 18.
Cistus, 6, 163; 7, 426.
Cities as wharves, 4, 324.
City and country opinions, 10, 182.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, 10, 131-170.
Civilization, not all a success, 2, 51;
and landscape, 3, 210-213; 5,
10; mistake to suppose that where
it exists inhabitants may not be
degraded, 8, 257, 368.
Cladonias, 5, 79, 100, 318; 7, 324.
Claire Fontaine, La, 9, 32.
Clams, Cape Cod, 4, 39, 40; large,
84; or quahogs, catching birds,
100, 101; stones shaped like, 129;
5, 11; 6, 37, 316, 367; fresh-
water (fresh-water-mussels), 7, 78,
250; moving, 9, 420.
Clamshell, 6, 48; 7, 21, 23, 28, 117,
156, 199, 286, 304, 332, 452.
Clamshell Hill, 5, 11, 23, 50, 104,
132, 198, 333; 7, 174, 376, 459;
8, 124, 132.
Clamshell meadow, 7, 157.
Clamshell reach, 7, 17.
Clamshells, colors of, 7, 376; none
in muskrat holes, 8, 34.
Clark, Brooks, 6, 89; 7, 134.
Classics, study of the, 1, 296;
158-160; must be read in the
original, 163.
Classification, 7, 106.
Clay Pounds, the, 4, 157; why so
called, 189; the Somerset wrecked
on, 193.
Clematis Brook, 5, 317, 319; 6, 144;
8, 311, 312.
Clematis Virginiana, 7, 228.
Clover, tree. See Melilot.
Clover, white, 6, 39, 70, 81, 141,
259.
Club, town and country, compared
with Nature's, 8, 135, 160.
Coat-of-arms, a Concord, 1, 9.
Coats, 6, 33.
Cobwebs, 7, 127, 133, 183, 190, 277,
381. See Spiders.
Cocciferæ (lichens), 5, 79.
Clergymen, 5, 24; 7, 422. See Cochituate (Mass.), 7, 230.
Ministers.
Clethra, 7, 233.
Cliff Hill, 8, 311.
Cliffs, 5, 20, 91, 113, 129, 202, 242,
249, 251, 281, 289, 304, 310, 317,
324, 333; 6, 161, 168, 170, 176, 198;
7, 17, 70, 97, 101, 152, 191, 257,
343, 364, 388, 422; 8, 96, 98, 99,
146, 168, 320.
Cliffs, verse, 6, 348.
Climate, contrasts afforded by, 8,
42.
Clintonia, 6, 36.
Clintonia borealis, 6, 13, 122.
Clock, 7, 57.
Clothes, 6, 33; 7, 258, 269, 403;
bad-weather, 9, 34; Canadian, 55.
Clothing, a necessary of life, 2, 22;
not always procured for true util-
ity, 36; new and old, 39; 5, 238.
Cloud, entering a, 3, 84; factory, a.
85.
Clouds, 5, 59, 75; a kind of dew, 6,
10; summer rain clouds, 74; cu-
muli, 86, 104; thunder-clouds, 211;
as objects of interest, 225; glow-
ing masses, 275; mountain-travel-
ing in, 290-295; seen from above,
299; after sunset, 332; portend-
ing thunder, 358; uniformity in
the same stratum, 364; shadows
of, 26, 39, 275; a cloudy after-
noon favorable to reflection, 7,
96; at sunset, 17, 257, 327, 358,
406, 429, 437; after rain, 257; of
November, 294; changeable in
clear, cold air, 358; a snow cloud,
359; mackerel sky, 427; an ever-
changing scene, 428; at sunrise,
458; 8, 18, 38, 127, 128, 130, 137,
148, 168, 193, 203, 204, 206, 258, 278,
320; the moon and, 9, 405. See
Rain, Storm, Thunder-showers.
Clover, ice-coated, 8, 85; on bare
slopes, 132; on a burnt spot, 251.
Clover, rabbit's foot, 6, 271.
Clover, red, 6, 39, 62, 114, 141, 149,
184; 7, 198.
Cock-crowing, the charms of, 2,
199-201; 6, 10, 162, 321; 7, 51,
183, 319, 385; 8, 28, 41, 53, 78,
129, 143, 164, 228, 230, 234, 263,
296, 297, 391.
Cockle shells, 8, 370.
Cocks, ushering in the dawn, 5, 148;
6, 51, 385.
Cocoanut, 7, 203.
Cocoons, 6, 15; 7, 440, 445; 8, 14,
171, 177, 178, 410.
Codman place, the, 2, 401.
Cohass Brook, 1, 311.
Cohasset, the Indian, 1, 311.
Cohasset (Mass.), the wreck at, 4,
3-14; Rocks, sea-bathing at, 17,
18.
Coincidences, 7, 173, 309.
Colburn farm woodlot, 7, 335.
Cold, 7, 52, 329, 445; 8, 13, 59, 133,
134, 151, 161, 226, 233, 234, 248,
285, 293, 343, 344, 356.
Cold Friday, dating from, 2, 394; 8,
226, 344.
Cold-Stream Pond, 3, 9.
Coleridge, S. T., quoted, on the
ideas in Old and New Testaments,
8, 238.
College teaching, what it amounts
to, 8, 81.
Collier, a, 6, 289.
Collins, James, Irishman whose
shanty T. bought, 2, 69.
Colors, variety of, 6, 4; of maple
leaves, 101, 108; in meadows, 108;
in woods, 108; of lily-pads, 108;
of sorrel fields, 111; of rocks, 17,
25, 219; of cattle, 219; of water,
219; of distant hills, 277; stand
for all ripeness and success, 7,
147; of the seasons, 158; of Na-
ture in early December, 383; of
the winter landscape, 456; the
poet's wealth, expensive, 8, 381;
exhibited in a winter walk, 386;
on snow and ice, 155, 156, 377,
383, 384, 386; names and joy of,
9, 335-337; in a May landscape,
436. See Autumnal Tints, Clouds,
Colton's Map of Maine, 3, 126, 383.
Columbines, 6, 52, 264.
Columella, 5, 312; his definition of
arbustum, 8, 175; his opinion on
climate, 397.
Comet, 7, 52, 74, 197.
Comfort, 7, 327.
Commerce, 1, 278; in praise of, 2,
186-192.
Commonplace books, 8, 403.
Common sense, uncommon and, 1,
511; the sense of men asleep, 2,
501; in the very old books, 5, 223;
7, 217.
Communities, 5, 48; 7, 126.
Companion, an invisible, 8, 135, 160.
Companions, 6, 75; tent, 7, 13;
walking, 235; disadvantage result-
ing from presence of, 8, 49; pines
deprived of, 77. See Acquaint-
ances, Associates, Friends, Neigh-
bors.
Composition, "Unto him that hath,"
applicable to, 8, 387.
Compost, better part of man soon
ploughed into soil for, 2, 11.
Compliments, 5, 244.
Conant's Grove, 7, 33.
Conant's meadow, 6, 123; 7, 8.
Conant's woods, 9, 452.
Conantum, 1, 462; 5, 303; 6, 12, 51,
122, 129, 237, 321; 7, 7, 8, 33, 34,
66, 86, 126, 154, 169, 189, 256, 296,
308, 413; 8, 63, 250.
Conantum Cliff, 7, 8.
Conantum End, 5, 318, 319; 8, 10.
CONCLUSION, 2, 493–514.
Concord (Mass.), settlement of, 1,
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; re-
turn to, 518; Walden Pond in, 2,
7; traveled a good deal in, 9; the
farmers of, 53; house surpassing
the luxury of, 79; little fresh meal
and corn sold in, 101; Battle-
Ground, 136; effect of a fire bell
on people living near, 147; culture,
167, wiser men than produced by
soil of, 169; hired man of, 170;
liberal education in, 171; "its.
soothing sound is -,' "180; sign
of a trader in, 189; bells of, 192;
two-colored waters of, 275; Wal
den bequeathed to, 303; Fight of
ants, 358; D. Ingraham, Esq., of,
397; "to the rescue," 401; 408,
431; 3, 1, 28, 95, 142; meaning of
Indian name for, 192, 231; 264,
332; the Assabet in, 345; Indians
of, 5, 176; 6, 90, 102, 186, 212;
cracks in ground at, 8, 12, 161; day
at New Bedford unlike any in, 28;
difference in latitude between
New Bedford and, 29; possible
history of wilderness at, 93; cin-
namon stone found in, 102; idea
of, 134; alliance of, to Athens,
146; proximity of, to river, 326;
9, 3, 6, 8; History of, quoted,
141; 163, 183, 186, 420, 457; the
trainers of, 10, 176.
Concord (N. H.), 1, 110, 111, 333,
382; entertained in, and origin of,
399, 400..
CONCORD RIVER, 1, 3-13.
Concord River, 1, 3; course of, 4;
gentleness 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; 2,
304, 308, 309; 3, 283, 345, 372; 7,
157, 372; 8, 124, 188; 9, 141, 170.
See Musketaquid River.
Cones, willow and other, their ori-
gin, 5, 225.
Confucius, quoted, 1, 357, 371; 2,
20, 211.
Connecticut, 7, 301.
Connecticut River, the, 1, 109, 111,
113, 264, 327; 9, 6, 177, 180, 181.
"Conscience is instinct bred in the
house," verse, 1, 94.
Conscience, the, 1, 93, 172; the
chief of conservatives, 175; good
writing obedience to, 8, 254; obe-
dience to, and trust in God a re-
treat to one's self, 8, 279.
Consciousness, of man the con-
sciousness of God, 8, 379; a man
consistent above his own, 397.
Consistency, the secret of health, 5,
266; 8, 397.
Conservatism, the wisest, 1, 174.
Constellations, the few geometrical
figures made by, 8, 215.
Contoocook, 1, 108.
Convallaria bifolia, 6, 143.
Convention, 5, 267.
Conversation, 7, 444; with a lady,
8, 77; with a scamp, 127; the
shallowness of most, 10, 273.
Convolvulus sepium, 6, 230.
Conway (N. H.), 6, 287, 312.
"Crania Americana," 6, 357.
Cranks, the turning of, 10, 50.
Coöperation, difficulties of, 2, 114. Crantz, account of Greenland,
Coos Falls, 1, 307, 437.
Copan, 7, 347.
Coreopsis, 1, 22.
Corn, great crops of, 4, 42-45; 6, 1,
2; its use taught by Indians, 8,
143.
Cornel, 6, 124, 243, 274; twigs of,
8, 312.
Cornel, broad-leaved, 6, 124.
Cornel, dwarf, 6, 43.
Cornel, small-leaved, 6, 124.
Corner road, 8, 220, 311.
Corner Spring, 6, 86; 7, 66, 77, 109.
Cornus alternifolia, 6, 124.
Cornus circinata, 6, 124.
Cornus florida (flowering dogwood),
7, 221.
Cornus paniculata, 6, 124.
Cornus sericea, 6, 124.
Cornus stolonifera, 6, 124.
Correction of MSS., 5, 32.
Corydalis, 7, 55.
Corydalis glauca, 6, 51.
Cost, the amount of life exchanged
for a thing, 2, 51; of house, items
of, 79; of food for eight months,
94; total, of living, 96; bean-
field, 253.
Cottages, 7, 398.
quoted, 4, 69, 178.
Creaking of wagons, 8, 220, 343.
Creeds, 7, 365.
Creeper, 6, 104; 8, 391; 9, 412,
429, 431.
Creeper, brown, 5, 32; 7, 335.
Cress, 7, 311; 8, 6, 311.
Cricket, mole, 7, 22, 27, 29.
Crickets, 6, 1, 37, 66, 77, 86, 99, 100,
121, 127, 144, 161, 176, 184, 230,
261, 345; 7, 21, 22, 23, 28, 96,
181, 189, 230, 246, 256, 258, 276;
8, 53; Josselyn's remark on, 352;
the creaking of, 9, 133.
Criticism, 1, 496: 6, 7; the most
effective, 142; cobwebs of, 203;
how to criticise one's own com-
position, 288, 336; height neces-
sary to, 6, 207.
Cromwell, temperament of, 8, 116.
Cromwell's Falls, 1, 110; story of
Cromwell and, 256.
Crooked River, the Souhegan or, 1,
Crook-neck squash seeds, Quebec,
9, 108.
Crosses in the wilderness, 3, 60;
road-side, 9, 56.
Crotalaria, 7,58.
Cotton, Charles, quoted, 1, 167, Crow blackbird, 5, 341.
"Counterparts, illustration of
Love and Friendship in, 8, 416.
Country, living in the, 5, 72; 7,
457; towns, 449; tavern, 450;
and city opinions, 10, 182.
Courage, 7, 342. See Valor.
Coureurs de bois, and de risques,
9, 53.
Cousin Trout. See Chivin.
Crowfoot (buttercup), 5, 345; 6,
52, 143; early, 7, 297; 8, 147.
See Buttercup and Ranunculus.
Crows, 5, 31, 62; 6, 47, 66, 93; 7,
333, 337, 347, 409, 458; 8, 40, 48,
89, 161, 164, 228, 296, 297; 9, 134;
not imported from Europe, 139;
430.
Crusoe, Robinson, among the Arabs,
1, 74.
Cow-bells, influence of, 5, 316; 8, Crystalline botany, 9, 155, 156.
Cow-bird's eggs, 6, 28, 115.
Cowpaths, 7, 11, 371.
Cows, fed on fishes' heads, 4, 258;
7, 72; rich farmer milking, 8,
150; evening call for, 336. See
Cattle.
Cowslips (Caltha palustris), 5, 52,
104, 227, 277, 326, 341.
Cowley, Abraham, 6, 81.
Cowper, William, quoted, 2, 130.
Cracking of the ground, 8, 12, 156,
Cranberries, mountain, 3 29; tree-,
179; mountain, 5, 88; 7, 183, 299.
Crystallization, 7, 434; 8, 8, 344,
374.
Crystals, frost, 5, 270; 8, 2, 91, 92,
119, 137, 166, 213, 287, 321, 375,
383.
Cuckoo, 6, 7, 49, 131, 135, 189, 357;
nest of, 6, 49.
Cudworth, Ralph, 6, 222.
Culm, bloom in the, 9, 310.
Cultivation, wildness and, 1, 68.
Cummings, slave of Squire, 2, 399.
Cupid Wounded, verse, 1, 302
Cup-lichens (cladonias), 6, 100.
Curing moose meat and hide, 3,
182, 183, 257.
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