Henry David Thoreau 1864 The Maine Woods

m i LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. CASE B Class MR. THOREAU'S WRITINGS. Walden. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Excursions. The Maine Woods. TICKNOR AND FIELDS, Publishers. THE MAINE WOODS BY HENRY D. THOREAU, AUTHOR OF "A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIIACK RIVERS,' " WALDEN," " EXCURSIONS," ETC., ETC BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 1864. CASE Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. UNIVERSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE. THE first of the papers following was published in u The Union Magazine," (New York,) in 1848; the second, " Chesuncook," came out in the "Atlantic Monthly," in 1858; and the last is now for the first time printed. CONTENTS. PAGB KTAADN 1 CHESUNCOOK 85 THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH 161 I. TREES 307 IE. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS … 308 IH. LIST or PLANTS.......312 IV. LIST OF BIRDS 321 V. QUADRUPEDS 322 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION … 322 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS … 324 KTAAD N. ON the 31st of August, 1846, 1 left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. F…