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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 III. LIST OF PLANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 IV . LIST OF... ...7 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N... ...IAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backw... ...in such a wilderness as this. The rough sketches in Jackson’s Reports on the Geology of Maine answer much better. At one place we saw a small grove of... ...at which is just established in a tearful eye. Jackson, in his Report on the Geology of Maine, in 1838, says of this moun tain: “Hornstone, which wil... ...ideand twenty or thirty feet long, crossed by other similar lines. I heard a Maryland yellow throat’s midnight strain, wood thrush, kingfisher (tweezer... ...tail or reed mace), extremely abundant between Bangor and Portland. Sanicula Marylandica (black snake root), Moosehead carry and after. Aralia nudicau... ...rbler), one part of voyage. Muscicapa acadica (small pewee), common. Trichas Marylandica (Maryland yellow throat), every where. Coccyzus Americanus? (...

...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I 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...

...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- ...

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