Light. _See_ Moonlight and Sunset.
"Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird," verse, =2=, 279.
Lilac, growing by deserted houses, =2=, 290.
Lily, the yellow, =3=, 209, 291; roots, gathering, 309; roots, soup
of, 317.
Lily Bay, =3=, 97, 99.
Limits of living, =2=, 7.
Lincoln, Abraham, =6=, 283, 378, 380.
Lincoln (Me.), =3=, 9, 85, 260, 319, 321, 322.
Lincoln (Mass.), =1=, 5; =2=, 95, 136, 173, 282; owls in woods of,
138, 139; Flint's Pond in, 216; chestnut woods of, 263;
burying-ground, 284, 299; =5=, 282, 283.
Lining of beauty for houses, =2=, 44.
Linnæus (Linné, Karl von), quoted, =5=, 222; =6=, 207, 208.
Litchfield (N. H.), =1=, 204, 206, 227.
Little Reading, =2=, 116.
Little Schoodic River, the, =3=, 23.
Living, getting a, =4=, 457-462. _See_ Life.
Lobster Pond, =3=, 106, 210.
Lobster Stream, =3=, 105, 210.
Lockwood. _See_ F. J. Merriam.
Locusts, =3=, 254; =6=, 90.
Log house, a, =3=, 138.
Loggers, camps of, =3=, 20; a gang of, 38.
Logs, from woods to market, sending, =3=, 46-49.
London, =6=, 137, 155, 343, 362.
Londonderry (N. H.), =1=, 92, 268.
Loneliness, desirable, =2=, 147, 151, 152.
Long Pond, =6=, 264.
Long River (La Rivière Longue), =6=, 389.
Long Wharf, taking a place at, =4=, 267.
Longfellow, H. W., =6=, 101, 251, 345, note.
Longueuil (Que.), =5=, 20.
Loon, hunting, and a game with the, =2=, 258-262; Indian word for, =3=,
182; cry of the, 247, 248.
Loring, E. G., =4=, 389, 393, 394.
Lost, in the lakes, experienced woodmen. =3=, 41; in the woods, T.'s
companion, 285-290.
Lost dove, horse, and hound, =6=, 301.
Loudon, John Claudius, quoted, =5=, 197, 200, 291, 292, 310.
Louisa, Aunt (Dunbar), =6=, 99.
Love, the power of, =4=, 304, 305; charms of, 198-200, 204, 205, 206,
208; corrupted, 199, 206, 208; potency of, 201, 203, 204; and
marriage, 198-209, 302. _See_ Friendship.
"Love once among roses," verse, =1=, 244.
"Love walking swiftly," verse, =1=, 242.
"Lovely dove," verse, =1=, 241.
Lovewell, Captain, and his Indian fight, =1=, 123; John, father of,
168, 176; =3=, 245.
"Low-anchored cloud," verse, =1=, 201.
"Low in the eastern sky," verse, =1=, 46; =5=, 400.
Lowell, James Russell (H. U. 1838), =6=, 61, 251, 345, 395.
Lowell (Mass.), =1=, 4, 31, 32, 39, 85, 87, 89, 115, 117, 225, 251,
264.
Lowell, Mrs., =6=, 24.
Lucretius, =6=, xi.
Luxury, fruit of a life of, =2=, 16.
Lyceum, the, =1=, 102; =2=, 121, 122; =6=, 6, 49, 51, 52, 61, 115,
145, 150, 154, 275; at Salem, 191; at Worcester, 303.
Lydgate, John, quoted, =1=, 57.
Lyman, Benjamin Smith (H. U. 1855), =6=, 252.
Lynx, Canada, =6=, 355.
Lyttelton, Lord, =6=, 383.
Macaulay, Rev. Zachary, =6=, 272, note.
McCauslin, or "Uncle George," weather-bound at farm of, =3=, 23-29;
good services as guide by, 40-42.
McCulloch's Geographical Dictionary, quoted, =5=, 49.
McGaw's Island, =1=, 245.
McKean, Henry Swasey (H. U. 1828), =6=, 109, 114, 122.
Mackerel, fishing for, =4=, 179-184, 189, 190; =6=, 229; fleet, the,
198, 261.
McTaggart, John, quoted, =5=, 94.
MacTavish, Simon, =5=, 98.
Mad River, =1=, 87.
Madawaska, the, =3=, 80; =6=, 323-326.
Mahabarat, =6=, 300.
Maiden in the East, =6=, 329, note.
Maine, mountainous region of, =3=, 4; intelligence of backwoodsmen in,
24; view of, 73; the forest of, 88; =6=, 6, 132, 145, 254, 311, 315,
322, 324-326.
Make-a-Stir, Squire, =2=, 8.
Male and female, =6=, 198, 207.
Mallet for flints, =6=, 19.
Man, =6=, 12, 31, 37; his activity, 167, 173, 213, 214; his bread,
164, 165; his duty, 167, 186; his education, 178, 221, 222; his
freedom, 175, 188, 196; his generation, 208; his immortality, 259,
294; his meanness, 179, 226.
Man, translation, =5=, 383.
Man, The Divine in, translation, =5=, 386.
Manchester (N. H.), =1=, 89, 225, 250, 251; Mfg. Co., 259, 260; 264,
268, 274.
Manilla hemp, =2=, 132.
Mankind, =6=, 8, 9, 31, 80, 136, 209, 210.
Mann, Horace, Jr., =6=, 385, 392.
"Man's little acts are grand," verse, =1=, 224.
Manse, the Old, =6=, 42, 51.
Map, of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts, =3=, 17, 101,
104, 308; drawing, on kitchen table, =5=, 60; of Canada, inspecting a,
95.
Maple, the red and sugar, =5=, 6; the red, 258-263, 265; the sugar,
261, 271-278.
Maple sugar, =6=, 278.
Maples, autumn colors of, =2=, 265; =5=, 6, 258-263, 265, 271-278.
Maps of Cape Cod, and New England, =4=, 227-231, 234; of walking
tours, =6=, 329, 335.
Marañon, the river, =5=, 93.
Maria, Aunt (Thoreau's), =6=, 118.
Mark-Lane Gazette, =6=, 124.
Marlborough (Mass.), =5=, 214.
Marlborough Chapel, =6=, 129.
Marriage, a sign of, =3=, 232; =6=, 139, 199, 200, 204, 205, 207-209,
302.
Mars' Hill, =3=, 8.
Marston, John, of Taunton, =6=, 21.
Marston-Watson, Benjamin (H. U. 1839), =6=, 43. _See_ Watson.
Marvell, Andrew, quoted, =4=, 451.
Massabesic, Lake, =1=, 89; Pond, 250.
Massachusetts, T.'s wish not to be associated with, =1=, 135; the
attitude of, towards slavery, =4=, 362, 363; duty of the Abolitionists
in, 369; slavery in, 388; the governor of, 389-392; judges, 401, 402;
unworthy to be followed, 403-406; the share of, in Harper's Ferry,
430, 431; election in, =6=, 16, 18, 141.
Massachusetts Bay, shallowness of, =4=, 124.
Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections of the, =4=, 20.
Massachusetts Quarterly Review, =6=, 144.
Massasoit, visited by Winslow, =2=, 158.
Matahumkeag, =3=, 107; meaning of the word, 157; 210.
Matanancook River, the, =3=, 321.
Mathematics, =1=, 386.
Mattaseunk, =3=, 18.
Mattawamkeag, the, =3=, 12, 13, 16; meaning of the name, 157; 256.
Mattawamkeag Point, =3=, 4, 11, 38, 88, 316, 319.
Matungamook Lake, =3=, 295.
Maturing, no need of haste towards, =2=, 359.
Maxims. _See_ Aphorisms.
May, Rev. Joseph, (H. U. 1857), =6=, 451.
May, Rev. Samuel Joseph, (H. U. 1818), =6=, 390.
Meadow River, Musketaquid or, =1=, 8.
Meadows, of Concord, =6=, 36, 92, 250, 334; birds in the, 14;
cranberries in, 204.
Meanness complained of, =6=, 88, 173, 175, 176, 187.
Meat and drink, =6=, 164, 165.
Medicine, =6=, 15-17.
Medicine, Yellow-river, =6=, 391.
Meeting-houses, =6=, 195, 336, 359; meeting-house cellar, 322.
Melancholy, =6=, 41, 182, 209.
Melon, buying a, =1=, 335; =6=, ix.
Memorial Verses, by Channing, =6=, 65, note.
Memory, =6=, 26, 41, 42, 93, 106; of former life, 179, 210, 211.
Men, in crowds, =6=, 79, 82, 83; of God, 214.
"Men are by birth equal in this, that given," verse, =1=, 311.
"Men dig and dive but cannot my wealth spend," verse, =1=, 373.
Mencius, quoted, =1=, 280; =2=, 242, 243.
Mending, =6=, 108, 363.
Menhaden, schools of, =4=, 120.
Mentors, of little use, =2=, 10.
Menu, the laws of, =1=, 154-161.
Merit and demerit, =6=, 87, 88, 97, 98, 145, 161, 162.
Merlin, =6=, 227.
Merriam, Francis Jackson, =6=, 366-368.
Merrimack (N. H.), =1=, 225, 227, 251, 353, 357, 391.
Merrimack River, =1=, 8, 19, 62, 63, 80, 81; origin and course of the,
85-92; 113, 122, 150, 169, 170, 174, 177, 181, 189, 200, 202, 203,
204; the Gazetteer quoted, 206, 207, 209, 210, 225, 226, 227, 232,
251, 259, 260, 263, 269, 271, 309, 321, 345, 354; freshet on the, 379,
383, 391; =5=, 147; =6=, 6.
Message, the President's, =6=, 379.
Methods of action, =6=, 8, 9, 33, 47, 56, 67, 88, 89, 108, 118.
Mice, visited by, on Hoosac Mountain, =1=, 196; sent to Agassiz, =6=,
128, 132.
Michaux on lumbering, quoted, =3=, 48.
Michaux, André, quoted, =5=, 269.
Michaux, François André, quoted, =5=, 220, 261, 301.
Microscope, =6=, 361.
Middleborough, Bennet's Account of, =6=, 264, 265.
Middlesex (Mass.), =1=, 62, 80, 226, 385.
Middlesex Cattle Show, =2=, 36.
Midnight, exploring the, =5=, 323.
Mikania, the climbing, =1=, 43.
Milford (Me.), =3=, 7.
Milky Way? Is not our planet in the, =2=, 147.
Miller, a crabbed, =5=, 69.
Millinocket Lake, =3=, 29, 41, 73, 260.
Millinocket River, =3=, 29, 31, 86-88, 223.
Mill's "British India," =6=, 271, note.
Milne, Alexander, quoted, =5=, 193, 194.
Milton, John, quoted, =6=, 274.
Milton, the town, =6=, 219.
Minding his business, till ineligible as town officer, T., =2=, 20.
Minerva, Momus objects to house of, =2=, 37.
Ministers, on Monday morning, =1=, 123; with, on Ktaadn, =3=, 214;
salaries of country, =4=, 45; some old Cape Cod, 48-55.
Minnesota, Indians of, =6=, 389, 390; rivers of, 386-389; trip to,
252, note, 380, 384-386.
Minnows, =6=, 127, 128, 131, 132.
Minot's Ledge, the light on, =4=, 262, 263.
Minott, George, =6=, 52, 91, 92, 106, 374, 375.
Minott, Mary, =6=, 374, 376.
Mîr Camar Uddin Mast, quoted, =2=, 111.
Mirabeau, on highway robbery, quoted, =2=, 355.
Mirages on sand and sea, =4=, 190-193.
Mirror, New York Weekly, =6=, 107, 111.
Misanthropy, not a trait of T., =6=, xii, 238.
Miscellany, Boston, =6=, 83, note, 102, note.
Mission, verse, =5=, 418.
Mississippi, discovery of the, =5=, 90; extent of the, 93; a panorama
of the, 224; =6=, 384, 386, 389.
Missouri Compromise, =4=, 408.
Mizzling of sixpences, =6=, 83.
Model farm, a, =2=, 218.
"Modern improvements," an illusion about, =2=, 57, 58.
"Modern Painters," =6=, 319.
Mohawk Rips, the, =3=, 322.
Mohawk traditions, =3=, 154.
Moisture in Cape Cod air, =4=, 165.
Molasses, Molly, =3=, 174.
Molunkus (Me.), =3=, 13, 15.
Momus, objection to Minerva's house by, =2=, 37.
Monadnock Mountain, =1=, 173; =5=, 4, 143, 145, 147; =6=, 329, 330,
364, 365, 368-372.