... The Maine Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1864 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resourc... ... . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the rai... ...he 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 ... ...es on this road, was a place to name, which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference... ...aved orchis, abundant and in bloom (a greenish white flower growing in little communities), Uvularia grandiflora, whose stemtasted like a cu cumber, Py... ...ideand twenty or thirty feet long, crossed by other similar lines. I heard a Maryland yellow throat’s midnight strain, wood thrush, kingfisher (tweezer... ...rer. They are of a social habit, growing in “veins,” “clumps,” “groups,” or “communities,” as the explorers call them, distinguishing them far away, f... ...tail or reed mace), extremely abundant between Bangor and Portland. Sanicula Marylandica (black snake root), Moosehead carry and after. Aralia nudicau...

...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 the west branch of the Penobsco...