batteaux
beach plum
bear
beaver
beech
Beecher, Henry Ward
bees
beetles
Berkeley, George
Bible,
Bigelow, Jacob
birch
birds; nests; see also specific birds
bittern
bitters
blackberry
blackbird
black flies
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum)
black oak (Quercus velutina)
black spruce (Abies nigra)
black tea
Blitz, Signor
blueberry
bluebird
bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)
Bodaeus, Johannes
Book of Judges
Border Ruffians
Boston
Boston Herald
Boston Post
botany; see also plants
Boutwell, George S.
Brand, John; Popular Antiquities
bravery
breams
Brisbane, Albert
Brocken spectre
Brontë, Emily
brook minnow
Brooks, Preston
broom grasses
broom hickory (Carya glabra)
Brown, Frederick
Brown, John; execution of; Harpers Ferry raid; last days of; plea for; Pottawatomie Creek massacre; trial and sentencing of
Brown, Lucy Jackson
Brown, Sir Thomas, Christian Morals
Bryant, William Cullen, “To a Waterfowl,”
Buchanan, James
buck-beans (Menyanthes trifoliata)
buckeye
buffalo
Buffon, Comte de; Natural History
Buford, Jefferson
Buncombe
Bunyan, John; The Pilgrim’s Progress
Burke, William
Burns, Anthony
Burton, Sir Richard Francis
business
butterfly
button-bush
Cabot, John
caddis-worms
Caesar, Julius
California
Callistephus chinensis, see China-aster
Calvinism
Campbell, Thomas, “Gertrude of Wyoming,”
Canada
canker-worm
canoes
Cape Cod
caribou
carp
Carpenter, William
carrots
Carya glabra, see broom hickory
Cass, Lewis
Cassandra calyculata, see dwarf andromeda
Catholic Church
Cato the Younger
cattle
Caucasus
cedar
cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
Celebes
cemetery
Chaldean Oracles
Champdoré
Channing, William Francis
Charles I, King of England
Charleston
Charlevoix, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de
Chaucer, Geoffrey; Canterbury Tales
Chenopodium Botrys, see Jerusalem oak
cherry
cherry-bird, see cedar waxwing
chestnut
chestnut oak (Quercus prinus)
Chesuncook Lake
chickadee
children
China
China-aster (Callistephus chinensis)
chivalry
chivin
Christianity; see also church; Jesus Christ
church; tax; and state, division of
Church of England
cicada
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
“Civil Disobedience,”
civilization
Civil War
Cloud of Unknowing, The
clouds
club moss (Lycopodium lucidulum)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Aids to Reflection
colors, autumnal
Columbus, Christopher
Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
common nightshade, see black nightshade
Commonwealth
Compromise of 1850
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord Lyceum
Concord River
Confucius; The Analects
Congress, U.S.
conscience
Constitution, U.S.
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Coppoc, Edwin
corn
cornel (bunch-berries)
Cornwallis, Charles
cotton
Cotton Whigs
cowbird
crab-apple (Malus coronaria); see also wild apple
cranberry
crickets
Crimean War
Cromwell, Oliver
crop rotation
crow
crystalline botany
Crystal Palace (London)
Cumming, Roualeyn George Gordon-
Curzon, Robert
Cusa, Nicholas of
daguerreotype
Dahomey
dams
Daniel, Samuel
Dante Alighieri
Darwin, Charles; On the Origin of Species
“Deacon’s Seat,”
death
Declaration of lndependence
deer
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe
Dekker, Thomas
democracy
Democratic Party
de Monts, Pierre du Guast, Sieur
Demosthenes
denominationalism
desert
de Staël, Madame
Dewey, Orville
Dexter, Timothy
Dial, The
dill
Dinesen, Isak, Out of Africa
Dionysius
disease
District of Columbia
dogs
dogwood
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Douglas, Stephen
Douglass, Frederick
Downing, Andrew Jackson
Doyle, John
Dracaena draco, see dragon-tree
“The Dragon of Wantley” (anonymous poem)
dragon-tree (Dracaena draro)
dreams
Dubuque, Julien
ducks
dung beetle
dwarf andromeda (Cassandra calyculata)
eagle
Easterbrooks Country
Eastern Indians
East Main
ecology
education
Edwards, Jonathan
eels
Egypt
electricity
Eliade, Mircea
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
elm
Emerson, George B.
Emerson, Lydia
Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Address on West India Emancipation; “The Problem,” Representative Men; “Self-Reliance,”
Emerson, Waldo
Emysaurus serpentina, see snapping turtle
Enfield
England; forests; government
English Romantics
entomology
environmentalism
Eragrostis pectinacea, see purple grass
eternity, speaking from
ethics
Etruscans
Etzler, J. A.
Europe; see also specific countries
Evelyn, John
experience
extended first person, prophetic
Fairbanks, Thaddeus
Fair Haven Pond
fallen leaves
Faraday, Michael
feather geranium
Fiji Islands
finch
fir
fire
First Parish Church, Concord
fish; see also specific fish
fish-hawk, see osprey
Five Islands
fli
cker
Florida
flycatcher (Tyrannus tyrannus)
forest trees, succession of
forked beard-grass (Andropogon furcatus)
Forster, E. M.; on Tristram Shandy
fossils
Fourier, Charles
Fowler, Thomas
fox
Fox, George
France
Franklin, Benjamin; Poor Richard’s Almanack
Franklin, Sir John
freedom
Free-Soilers
frogs
frost-smoke
fruits; wild apples
Fugitive Slave Law
Fuller-Ossoli, Margaret
full moon
Fulton, Robert
fur trade
Gandhi, Mohandas
garget, see poke
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gaylussacia, see huckleberry
geese
Genin, John Nicholas
genius
George, King of England
Georgia
Germany
Gesner, Konrad
Gessler
Gnaphalium, see life-everlasting
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Italian Journey
gold
golden rule
Goldsmith, Oliver
gooseberry
goosefoot
Gosnold, Bartholomew
gossip
governmeht; civil disobedience; slavery and
Gramineae, see grasses
grape
grasses; purple
gravity
Gray, Asa
Gray, Thomas, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,”
Great North Diver
Great Pine Forest
Great Slave Lake
Greece
Greeley, Horace
Greenland
Greenleaf, Moses; Map of Maine
Green Mountains
gulls
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Hale, Edward Everett
Harpers Ferry raid
Harvard College
harvest-fly (Cicada)
hawk
hay scales
Hayward, John, The New England Gazetteer
Head, Sir Francis
Hebrew Bible
Hecatompolis
hedgehog
hellebore
hemlock
Henry, Joseph
herbs
Herndon, William Lewis
Herodians
Herodotus
heroism
heron
Herrick, Robert
Hesperides
hickory
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Hinduism
Hippocrates
Hoar, Samuel
Hodge, James T.
Holley, Myron
Homer; The Odyssey
hornet
horses
Hottentots
Howe, Samuel Gridley
Howitt, William
huckleberry (Gaylussacia)
huckleberry-bird, see sparrow
Hudson’s Bay
Humboldt, Alexander von
humor
Huns
hunting
Hybla
Hymettus
Hypericum perforatum, see Saint-John’s-wort
ice
ignorance
imagination
India
Indian-grass (Andropogon nutans)
Indians, see Native Americans
industry
insects; see also specific insects
invertebrates
Ireland
Irving, Washington
Islam
Isle of Orleans
Isthmus of Darien
Italy
ivy
Jackson, Charles T.
jay
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerusalem oak (Chenopodium Botyrs)
Jesuit missionaries
Jesus Christ
Johnson, Barbara
Johnson, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language
Jonson, Ben
joy
Juncaceae, see rushes
Junco hiemalis, see snowbird
June grass
juniper
justice
Kabir
Kane, Elisha Kent
Kansas “Bleeding,” xlii
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kant, Immanuel
Katahdin, Mount, see Ktaadn
Katepskonegan Lake
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
kingbird
King Philip’s War
Knight, Thomas Andrew
knowledge
Knox, John
koodoo
Kossuth, Lajos
“Ktaadn,”
Labiatae, see mint
Labrador
lambkill
Lane, Charles
Lapland
larch
lark
Laski, J. K.
“Last Days of John Brown, The,”
Latimer, George
Lawrence, D. H.
League of Gileadites
leaves, autumnal
Lescarbot, Marc
Lethe (river)
Liberator, The
Liberty Party
lichen
life-everlasting (Gnaphalium)
“Life without Principle,”
light
lightning
lily
Lincoln, Maine
Lincoln, Abraham
Linnaeus, Carolus
lizards
Locke, JohnAn Essay concerning Human Understanding
LondonGreat Exhibition
London Horticultural Society
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
loon
loosestrife
López, Narciso
Loring, Edward Greely
Loudon, John Claudius
Louisiana Purchase
lumber trade
Luther, Martin
lyceum movement
Lycopodium lucidulum, see club moss
lynx
Macgregor, Patrick, “Ca-Lodin,” 173, 344; “Carric, a Poem,” 208, 351; The Genuine Remains of Ossian
machinery
Macpherson, James, The Poems of Ossian
magnolia
Mahomet
Maine
malic acid
Malus coronaria, see crab-apple
Manila
manners
Manu Vaivasvata
maple red sugar
Map of the Public Lands of Maine and Massachusetts
marmot
marsh hawk
Marvell, Andrew, “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland,”
Mason, James M.
Massachusetts natural history of slavery in
Massachusetts Supreme Court
mathematics
Mattawamkeag
McAdam, John
McCauslin, George
meadow-hay
meadow-hen
melons
Melville, Herman
memory
Menyanthes trifoliatu, see buck beans
Mexican War
Mexico
Michaelmas
Michaux, François André North American Sylva “Travels West of the Alleghanies in 1802,” 160
Michigan
Middle Ages
midges (no-see-ums)
Milford
military
Millinocket River
Milne, Alexander
Milton, JohnLycidas Paradise Lost
mining
mink
Minnesota
mint (Labiatae)
missionaries
Mississippi River
Missouri
Missouri Compromise
Mitchel, John
Mohawk River
Mohawks
Molunkus
money
moonlight
Moore, Thomas, “A Canadian Boat Song,”
moose
moose-berries
moose-wood
Mormons
Morrison, John
mosquitoes
moss
mossy-cup oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
mountain-ash
mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
mouse
Muir, John
mulberry ash
Murch Brook
muskrat
Mus leucopus, see wood mouse
mussel (Unio complanatus)
mythology
names
Napoleon Bonaparte
Native Americans
“Natural History of Massachusetts,”
Nauvoo
Nawshawtuct Hill
Nebraska see also Kansas-Nebraska Act
Neptune, Louis
nettle (Urtica urens)
New England
Newfoundland
New Granada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
newspapers, see press; specific publications
New Testament
New York
New York Herald
New-York Tribune
New-York Weekly Tribune
Niagara Falls
Nickatow
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg
Niépce, Joseph-Nicéphore
Nobscot Hill
nonresistance, see resistance
Nootka Sound
North
North Twin Lake
nuthatch
nuts
Nuttall, Thomas
Nymphaea odorata, see water lily
oak scarlet seed dispersal white
oats
O’Connor, Flannery
Odd Fellow
Ohio
Old Testament
Oldtown
Old World
Oregon
Oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis)
osprey
otter
owl
Pacific Ocean
Paley, William The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
Palladius
palmerworm
Palmyra
Pamadumcook Lake
panicled andromeda
“Paradise (To Be) Regained,”
parish tax
Parker, Theodore
Parry, Sir William Edward
partridge
Passadumkeag
Passamagamet Lake
Patent Office
patriotism
Paxton, Sir Joseph
Peele, George, The Battle of Alcazar
Pellico, Silvio, Le mie prigioni
Pennsylvania
Penobscot Indians
Penobscot River
perch
persimmon
perspective
Peter of Amiens
pewee
Philip (Metacomet)
Philips, John
philosophy
Phleum alpinum, see timothy grass
phoebe
photography
physical world
Phytolacca decandra, see poke
pickerel
picquer de fond
pigeon-woodpecker, see flicker
pignuts
pigweed
Pilate
Pilgrims
Pilpay
pine logging of seed dispersal
pineapple
pin oak (Quercus palustris)
Pinus strobus, see white pine
pitch pine
plane tree
plants autumnal tints seed dispersal and germination succession of forest trees wild apples see also nature; specific plants
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