Part 79

Wash-Tub Brook, North Pownal (Vt.), 188, 190, 193

Water, pure drinking, 210, 214, 218, 219

Water-Cress, 162

Water Persicaria, 84

Weeping Rocks, or Gregor Rocks, 193

Welch Farm, Mount Œta, 139

Western Gateway of Hoosac Mountain, 13, 14

West Orange (N. J.), 231

Wentworth, Governor Benning, 198

West Peak, State Park, Meriden (Conn.), 129

West Rock, New Haven (Conn.), 4, 126, 129, 130, 158

Westville (Conn.), swamps of, 85, 125, 129, 130

Whale fossil discovered in Vermont, 204

Whig Tavern, North Adams (Mass.) (1838), 215

Whippoorwills, chorus of, 95, 96; baby, 96, 175, 176, 205; eggs and nest of, 175, 205; habits of, 175, 176

Whippoorwill’s-Shoes, 206. See Moccasin-Flowers and Cypripedium

White Mountains (N. H.), 47, 214, 235

White Oaks, northern Berkshire (Mass.), region, 76, 121, 183, 197; road, 120, 183, 196, 197, 207; chapel, 196; origin of name, 197

Whittier, J. G., quoted, on poem, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, 160; Mayflowers, 24; Mabel Martin, 39; Seeking of the Waterfall, 15; Storm on Lake Asquam, 72

Whortleberry, 119

Whorts of the 16th century, 120

Wilbur, Jeremiah, farm of, Notch Valley, northern Berkshire, 216, 220; Thoreau’s ascent to Greylock through The Notch, 218

Wild Cat Express, Hoosac Valley, 120

Wild Hens, 174

Wildmont Cottage, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 232, 233

Wildwood or Tiger Lilies, 210

Williams, Orlando, Swamp, Orange Mountains (N. J.), 234

Williams College, Williamstown (Mass.), 76, 219; Thoreau’s admiration of the location of, 10; Baccalaureate Sunday, 70; students, 70, 196; sun-dial tablet, 228; Museum, relics in, 228; Library, 228.