Part 64

Hoosac Tunnel, completion of (1875), 7; western gate of, 12; cliffs of, 13; 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 Thermopylæ of Greece, 96; wars of the, 96; morning mist of, 97; view of, from the Domelet, 120; roads of, 139; Revolutionary days in, 200; region of, described by Henry 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 cærulea, 126

Howling Swamp, 204; wilderness of, 203

Huckleberry, 5, 186; dwarf, 117; venders of, 117; high, 118, 202

Hudson Brook, North Adams (Mass.), 224, 229; origin of name of, 225; Hawthorne’s description of, 225, 227

Hudson River, 7; valley of, 221, 204

Iasione, 195

Ice Age, 9, 57, 115

Illustrated Flora of Northeastern North America, 128

Indian Corn, 88, 168

Indian Cucumber, 20, 162, 163

Indian Fig, 158

Indian Pipe, 164, 233

Indian Poke, 5, 20, 47, 68, 142, 164

Indian Turnip, 21, 160, 172

Indian’s Paint-Brush, 235

Indians, 7, 47, 97; Algonquin, 59

Innocence, 126

Ipecacuanha, American, 47

Iris, 143, 176

Iris Swamp, 142, 198

Iron-Wood trees, 149, 150

Itch-Weed, 5, 63

Ivy, Poison, 18, 35, 131