Reading, =6=, 28, 31, 65, 66, 112-114, 153, 300, 301, 379, 382.
Read's Ferry, =1=, 245.
Reality, finding, =2=, 108, 109.
Realometer, not Nilometer, but a, =2=, 109.
Recluse, habits of a, =6=, 18, 36, 37, 59, note, 79, 122, 159, 170,
195, 238, 252, note, 266, 328.
Red shirts, =3=, 31, 145.
Reformers, =1=, 130; objection to, 118.
Reforms in mechanics and ethics, =4=, 281-286.
Religion, ligature and, =1=, 64, 79; =6=, 9, 10, 89, 99, 114, 159,
164, 179, 191, 195, 213, 214, 243, 297, 393.
Rent, annual tax that would buy a village of wigwams, =2=, 33.
_Repaired_ road, a, =3=, 98.
Reporter, with labor for pains, =2=, 19.
Reports on the natural history of Massachusetts, =5=, 103, 114, 118,
123, 129, 130.
Resignation, confirmed desperation, =2=, 8.
Respectability, =6=, 79.
Restigouche River, the, =3=, 178; =6=, 324.
Return of Spring, verse, =5=, 109.
Review, Democratic, =6=, 51, note, 100, 102, 108, 118; Massachusetts
Quarterly, =6=, 144, 156.
Review, of Carlyle by Emerson, =6=, 94, 101; of Emerson in Revue des
Deux Mondes, 157.
Rhexia, =1=, 18; =5=, 252.
Rice, story of the mountaineer, =1=, 212-220.
Richardson, Rev. James (H. U. 1837), =6=, 10.
Richelieu, Isles of, =5=, 96.
Richelieu or St. John's River, =5=, 8.
Richelieu Rapids, the, =5=, 21.
Richter, Jean Paul, quoted, =5=, 330, 331.
Ricketson, Daniel, described, =6=, 235, 239, 305; letters from, 237,
246, 257; letters to, 239, 240, 246, 248, 261, 266, 270, 273, 284,
285, 304, 305, 311, 313, 337, 341, 350, 368, 374, 376, 393, 396, 397;
mentioned, 237, 245, 257, 261, 265, 308, 342, 359, 381; visited by T.,
265; plans trip abroad, 333; conversion of, 393.
Ricketson, Walton, sculptor, =6=, xiii, 263, 485.
Ripley, Rev. Ezra, D. D. (H. U. 1776), =6=, 4.
Ripley, George, =6=, 404.
Ripogenus Portage, =3=, 80.
River, the flow of a, =5=, 178.
River-bank, ice formations, in a, =5=, 128, 129.
River Wolf, Fresh-Water or, =1=, 29.
Rivers, of history, the famous, =1=, 10.
Rivière du Loup, =6=, 323.
Rivière du Sud, the, =5=, 92.
Rivière more meandering than River, =5=, 56.
Roach. _See_ Chivin.
Roaches, silvery, =3=, 59.
Road, a supply, =3=, 212; recipe for making a, 244.
Roberval, Sieur de, =5=, 95, 96.
Robin, the evening, =2=, 344; =5=, 109; a white, 109, note.
Robin Hood Ballads, quoted, =1=, 121, 174, 175; =5=, 150, 207.
Rock-Ebeeme, =3=, 20.
Rock hills, singular, =3=, 282.
Rogers, Nathaniel P., editor of "Herald of Freedom," =4=, 306-308;
quoted, 308-310.
Romans, vestiges of the, =1=, 264.
Room for thoughts, =2=, 156.
Roots of spruce, as thread, =3=, 225, 226.
Ross, Sir James Clark, quoted, =1=, 390.
Rowlandson, Mrs., =5=, 149.
Roxbury, Mass., mentioned, =6=, 22, 24.
Ruff, the, =1=, 24-26.
Rumors from an Æolian Harp, verse, =1=, 184.
Runaway slave, =2=, 168, 169.
Rural life, =6=, 38, 67, 93, 115, 116, 121, 135.
Russell, E. H., =6=, 403.
Russell Stream, =3=, 104.
"Rut," the, a sound before a change of wind, =4=, 97, 98.
Rynders, =6=, 122.
Sabbatia chloroides, =6=, 264.
Sabbath-keeping, =6=, 99, 195, 336.
Sachem Tahatawan, =6=, 13, 18.
Saddle-back Mountain, =1=, 189.
Sadi of Shiraz, Sheik, quoted, =2=, 87.
Sadness, =6=, 41, 43, 47, 75, 89, 397.
Saguenay River, =5=, 91, 94.
St. Anne, the Falls of, =5=, 40; Church of _La Bonne_, 49; lodgings in
village of, 49-51; interior of the church of _La Bonne_, 51, 52; Falls
of, described, 52-55.
St. Ann's of Concord voyageurs, Ball's Hill, the, =1=, 19.
St. Charles River, the, =5=, 30.
St. Francis Indian, =3=, 146, 208.
St. George's Bank, =4=, 123, 124.
St. Helen's Island (Montreal), =5=, 11.
St. John, the wrecked brig, =4=, 6.
St. John River, the, =3=, 5, 40, 80, 101, 137, 176, 178, 203, 233,
238, 251, 256, 257, 270, 271, 274.
St. John's (Que.), =5=, 9, 10.
St. John's River, =5=, 8.
St. Lawrence River, =3=, 80, 233, 238; =5=, 11; cottages along the,
21; banks of the, above Quebec, 40, 41; breadth of, 49; or Great
River, 89-95; old maps of, 89, 90, 92; compared with other rivers, 90,
92-95; =6=, 323.
St. Maurice River, =5=, 94.
Saint Vitus' dance, =2=, 103.
Salmon, =1=, 32.
Salmon Brook, =1=, 167, 168, 375; Lovewell's house on, 345.
"Salmon Brook," verse, =1=, 375.
Salmon River, =3=, 19.
Salop (Shropshire), =6=, 249, 383.
Salt, as manufactured by Captain John Sears, =4=, 27, 28; works, 218,
219.
Salutations, Canadian, =5=, 47.
"Sam," a cat, =6=, 29, 31.
Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin (H. U. 1855), letters to, =6=, 58, 59,
note, 252, 385-392; his Life of Thoreau, 22, 61, 90, 154, note, 252;
his Memoir of Alcott cited, 61, note, 237, note, 252, note, 345;
mentioned, 252, 287, 364, 365, 377, 381, 400; his school, 253, 322;
his version of T.'s Latin, 29-32.
Sand, tract of, near Nashua, =1=, 152, 209, 210; blowing, =4=, 204;
inroads of the, 204, 205; Provincetown, 220-223.
Sandbar Island, =3=, 100, 188, 189.
Sand cherry, tasted out of compliment to Nature, =2=, 126.
Sand formations due to thaw, =2=, 336-340.
Sandwich (Mass.), =4=, 19; described, 20-22.
Sandwich (N. H.), =1=, 86.
Sandy Hook, =6=, 70, 72, 83.
Sanjay, quoted, =1=, 147.
Sanscrit books, =6=, 270, 271, note, 300.
Sap of sugar maple, =6=, 278, 279.
Sarah, Aunt (Dunbar), =6=, 5.
Sardanapalus, at best houses traveler considered a, =2=, 40.
Sargent, John Turner (H. U. 1827), =6=, 190.
Satire, poetry and, =1=, 328-330.