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INDEX.

112, 123, 128, 133, 139, 143, 149, 154, 173, 174, 184, 190, 203, 207, 220, 228, 229, 283, 313, 321, 324, 340, 345, 348, 357, 364, 388, 396, 401, 421, 458, 461.

American bards, 137, 341.

American birds, 14, 23, 26, 31, 34, 48, 88, 184, 227, 270, 409, 425, 434.

American characteristics, 9, 93, 101, 127, 130, 165, 252, 276, 434.

American cities, 81, 93, 130, 225, 335, 348, 397, 401.

American politics, 18, 19, 168, 334, 414.

American privateer, General Lin coln, 3.

American Revolution, 11, 414.

Ainherst, N. H., 354.

Amcenitates Botanicse, a book, 249.

Anavvan, an Indian, 16.

Anchoring a mountain, 376.

Ancients, wisdom of the, 136, 350, 351.

Annihilation Company, 233.

Anti-Sabbath convention, 189.

Anti-slavery meetings, 302, 413, 414.

Anti-Slavery Standard, The, 53, 289.

Appearances, 213, 274.

Apples, Baldwin, 256; Dead Sea, 411 ; frozen-thawed, 214 ; of Hes- perides, 256 ; planted byThoreau, 427.

Architecture, Alcott s, 163.

&quot;Architecture, Seven Lamps of&quot; (Ruskin), 374.

Arnica mollis, 389, 390.

Arnold, Benedict, 378, 379.

Arnold, Mr., 396.

Armies, 307, 378, 411.

Arrow-heads, 4, 20, 114.

Art, 112, 374.

Ash-man, is God an ? 294.

Ask to see God, 197.

Asnebumskit, 234, 329, 330.

Assabet, the river, vii, 318.

Assawampsett, 313.

Assisting Nature, 314.

Associations : Brook Farm, 372 ; Fourierite, 96, 115, 124, 372.

Assyria, 253, 270.

Astor House, New York, 131.

Astor Library, 335.

Astronomy at Cambridge, 159, 164 ; at Concord, 159.

Atlantic Monthly, 284, 458.

Atlantic Ocean, x, 15, 82, 98, 220, 230, 304, 353, 412.

Atlas, the Giant, 292, 418.

Aulus Persius, 3, 189.

Australian Englishman, 393.

Australasia, Cholmondeley in, 284. Autobiographies of Gibbon and

Goethe, 352 ; of Haydon, 269, 352. Autumn, a poem, 137 ; the season,

43, 333.

&quot;Autumnal Tints,&quot; 395, 406. Autuinnus, 44. Awe at visiting mountains, 374.

BABYLON, ancient, 270.

Babylon, N. Y., 121.

Bacon mentioned, 136.

Bacchus, Whitman compared to.

349.

Bag of gold in swimming, 373. Baldwin apples, 256. Bangor, Me., 142, 158, 381. Banks, 194 ; failures of, 371-373. Barberries, 187, 211; barberrying,

413. Bartlett, Dr. Josiah (H. U. 1816),

164, 182, 184, 301. Bartlett, Robert (H. U. 1836), 68. Battery, New York, 101. Battles, 410 ; in the cloud, 384. Bay of New York, 125, 336; of

Plymouth, 353. Beach at Fire Island, 220, 223 ; at

Staten Island, x, 83, 98, 102; at

Truro, 302, 305, 412. Beasts, 251, 432.

&quot;Beauties of Ancient English Poe try,&quot; 77. Beauty, 239; Emerson s Ode to,

137-140 ; Ruskin on, 374. Beautiful laws, 213. Beecher, Henry Ward, 340. Bedfellows, 263, 273. Beer, small and strong, 168, 178,

179.

Beggars, 344. Beggar-ticks, 338. Behemoth, 278. Bellew, F., an artist. 335. Bellows, Rev. H. W. (H. U. 1832),

125.

Bemis, George, Concord printer, 19. Benjamin, Park, 128. Bemiet s account of Middleborough,

313.

Benton, Myron B., 461. Berkshire, mentioned, 324. Berries, 25, 133.

Betty s Neck, Middleborough, 313. Biberg, J. (naturalist), quoted, 249. Bible, mentioned, 74, 116, 136. Bigelow, Dr. J., 21. Birney, James G., 333-381. Birth, spiritual, 254. Black, Mrs., 97.