294 Index 



Hawk, Twilight, habits of, 206; or, Bull-Bat, 205 



Hawkweed, Orange, 236 



Hawthorne, N., American Notes quoted, 10, 192, 193, 214, 

 215, 222, 225, 226; route to Greylock (Mass.), through 

 the Notch, 213; visits to Limekilns, North Adams 

 (Mass.), 214; visit to Deerfield Arch, 222; visits to 

 Natural Bridge, Hudson Brook, 225, 228 



Haystack Mountain (Vt.), 185, 210 



Hazen, Mount, Williamstown (Mass.), 186, 196 



Heal-All, 102 



Heart's-Ease, 159 



Heath Family, 6 



Hellas, Moimtains of, 97 



Hellebore, American, 5, 6, 20, 28, 47 



Hemlock Brook, 188 ; woods of, Notch Brook, 113; glen of, 193 



Hepatica, 171, 194 



Herbe de Chat, the cat's heal-all, 132, 133 



Herkimer (N. Y.), 80 



Hieraciuyn aurantiacutn, 236 



Higginson, Thomas Went worth, quoted, 47, 59, 89 



Hitchcock, President, Amherst (Mass.), 9 



Honeysuckles, origin of name of, 170 



Hoosac Falls (N. Y.), plains of, 98 



Hoosac, Highlands, 4, 5, 8, 165, 214, 232; ancient lake of the, 

 8, 12, 22, 222; flowers in bloom each month of the 

 year in, 121; Lowlands, 207; tornado in, 210; Indians' 

 hunting-ground in the 218; depths of lake 10,000 

 years ago, 221 



Hoosac Moimtain, 5, 79, 212, 221 



Hoosac River, source of, 6, 7, 18, 98, 188; South Branch of, 

 13; narrow pass of, 96; view of the, 120; North 

 Branch of, 224; peaceful waters of, 238. 5^^ Ashuilti- 

 cook River and Mayunsook River 



Hoosac Tunnel, completion of (1875), 7 5 western gate of, 12; 

 cliffs of, 1 3 ; passing of trains through, 13, 224; eastern 

 portal of, 222 



Hoosac Valley, 6, 8, 115,. 118, 185, 202, 213, 233; narrowest 

 portion of, likened to the Pass of Thermopylae of 

 Greece, 96; wars of the, 96; morning mist of, 97; 

 view of, from the Domelet, 120; roads of, 139; Revo- 

 lutionary days in, 200; region of, described by Henr\^ 

 Ward Beecher, 201 



Hopkins, Professor Albert, first nature -student afield (1833), 

 11; erected first astronomical observatory in U. S. 

 (1838), 228 



Hopper, The, a portion of Greylock Mountain, 11 



Hornbeam, American, 149 



Houstonia ccBriilea, 126 



Howling Swamp, 204; wilderness of, 203 



Huckleberry, 5, 186; dwarf, 117; venders of , 117; high, 118, 

 202 



