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 INDEX. Mean aspects of life, 82, 93, 97, 276. Meanness complained of, 104, 208, 211,224. Meat and drink, 198, 199. Medicine (Indian term), 1G-18. Medicine, Yellow (a river), 452. Mediterranean shore, 359. Meeting-houses, 235, 392, 414 ; meet ing-house cellar, 377. Melancholy, 47, 219, 252. Melodies, 24, 50. Melodious fringilla, 26. Melons, viii. Memorial Verses, by Channing, 76. Memories of former life, 215, 253. Memory, 29, 48, 110, 126. Men in crowds, 93, 98. Men of God, 257. Mending, 129, 419. Mental philosophy. 28, 29. Mercantile Library, 130, 145. Merchant (Thoreau s father), 3, 409. Mercury (of New Bedford), 314, 394, 396 ; prints Ricketson s History, 394. Merit and demerit, 104, 116, 174, 194. Merlin (a hawk), 273. Merriam, Francis Jackson, a fugi tive, 422-424. Merrimack, the river, 5 ; &quot; Week on the,&quot; 1G6, 187, 219, 299, 321, 349, 392, 437, 462. Message, the President s, 438. Methods of action, 8, 37, 54, 65, 78, 105, 128, 141. Mice sent to Agassiz, 153, 157. Michigan, 454. Micrometer, 164. Microscope, 417. Mill-dam, 316; of the Thoreaus at Acton, 410. Mill s &quot; British India,&quot; 321. &quot; Million men of no importance com pared with one man,&quot; 98. Milton, 324. Milton, the town, 208, 263, 264. Minnesota, Indians of, 451, 452 ; riv ers of, 447-451 ; trip to, 299, 439, 444, 446. Minnows, 152, 157. Minott, George (Concord rustic), GO, 108, 110, 126. Mirror (New York weekly), 127, 132. Misanthropy, not a trait of Thoreau, xii, 287. Miscellany, Boston, 99, 122. Mississippi River, 444, 447, 450. Mist, 321. Mizzling of sixpences, 98. Mob in New York, 93, 130. Modern commercial spirit, 7-9. &quot; Modern Painters,&quot; 374. Moles, 157, 232. Monadnoc, 383-385, 421, 428-433. Money, idolatry of, 194, 373, 387; hard, 373. Month, work for, 378. Monthly. See Magazines. Monument, Concord, 26. Moose, 335, 362, 382, 391, 393. Moosehead Lake, 376, 380. Morals, 247, 254, 207, 293, 345. Morton, Edwin (H. U. 1855), 299, , 440. Mott, Mrs. Lucretia, 115. Mountains, 235, 258, 370, 374, 379, , 385, 389-391, 403, 415, 419,, 429. Mountains, White, 5, 375, 385, 387, , 404, 406, 430. Mount Washington, 375, 376, 390. Muddy tortoise, 153. Mud Pond, 382. Mud-puddle, the sun in a, 292. Munroe, James, publisher, 71, 149, , 388. Muses, the, 51, 214. Museum, British, 442. Music, 47, 49, 51-53, 88, 232, 278, . Musketaquid (Concord), 14; the river, 70, 305. Muskrat s house, 266. Muttering thunder, 70. Myself and Yourself, 259, 417. Mystics, 180. NEPTUNE, the god, 31 ; the planet, . Nests, 74, 193. Neversink, N. J., 82, 310. New Bedford, 283-289, 305, 307, 311, , 320, 324, 367, 388, 396, 397,, 414, 435. Newcomb, Charles, 350. New England, 222, 321. New Hampshire, 300, 384, 386, 389, , 392, 419, 420, 422. New Jersey, 82, 333-339. &quot; New Orleans Crescent &quot; and Whit man, 341. News, 216. Newspapers denounced, 211, 216, 224. New Testament, 164. Newton, Sir Isaac, 163. New World (America), 268.