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Mail-coach, first, in Hoosac Valley, 7 



Major, a valued hound, 62, 100; as a good comrade, 15, 19, 



46, 67, 72, 99, 146, 150, 211 

 Manhattan Island (N. Y. City), 158 

 Mann Mountain, Pownal (Vt.), 98 

 Manzanita, an evergreen shrub of Nevada, 165 

 Marathon, Plains of, 97 

 Marbledale (Conn.), 235 



Marble Quarry, North Adams (Mass.), 225, 228, 229 

 Marl, formation of, 10 1 

 Marsh Buttercups, 5 



Marsh Marigolds, 4, 18, 129, 141, 162, 171, 187 

 Marvel's, Ik, home, New Haven (Conn.), 130 

 Mary or Marianus, "Our Lady the Virgin Mary," 58, 59 

 Mason, Elijah, Farm, 201 

 Massachusetts, 3, 91; highest land, 10; border fort, 11; 



State line, 96; coast and highlands, 105 

 Mayflowers, 24. See Arbutus 

 May, month of, 126; charm of, 133, 134; showers of, 137; 



excursions: ist, 125, 153; 2d, 133; 7th-i5th, 133; 



14th, 3; 15th, 133, 134, 157, 165; i8th, 167; 19th, 104, 



188; 20th, 138; 23d, 139; 25th, 56, 57; 29th, 141; 



30th, 55 

 Mayunsook River, North Branch of Hoosac River, 224; 



valley of, 222, 224, 229 

 McLean's Woods (N. Y. City), swamp of, 162 

 Meadow-Gift, 91. See Grass Pink, or Lintodorunt 

 Meadow- Rue, 171 

 Meadows, wild, 56, 67, 137, 180, 181; paths of moles and rats 



in, 65, 66 

 Medeola Virginiana, 20, 162; origin of name of, 162 

 Meehan, Thomas, quoted, 93 

 Mentha, 132 



Menyanthes trifoliata, 26, 67, 180. See Buckbean 

 Meriden (Conn.), 129 

 Merrimack River, 190 

 Merwin, a little guardsman of the swamps, 70; home of, 70, 



87; mother of, 73-75, 88 

 Meyers' sugar kitchen, 89, 187; road, 86 

 Milkweed Family, 234 

 Milton, John, quoted, 21, 141, 149, 153 

 Minister and School Lots, 198 

 Mints, ancient name of, 132 

 Mitchella repens, 24 

 Moccasin-Flower, generic description of, 242; haunts of, 5, 8, 



26, 36, 40, 44, 48, 49, 141, 203 ; origin of name of, 59; 



seedlings of, 77. See Lady's Slipper and Cypripedium 

 Large Yellow or Downy Moccasin-Flower, specific de- 

 scription, 245; hatmts, 56, 57, 60, 62, 134, 152, 168, 



173, 184; most generally distributed species, 60. See 



C. hirsutum 



