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Rothay, the river, 149, 150.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 229.

Rue-anemone, 172.

Rumex acetosa, 170.

Rydal Mount, 41.

St. John's-wort, 19.

St. Paul's Cathedral, 182.

Salisbury Crags, 48, 49.

Salmon, 188.

Sandpiper, European, notes of, 40, 115, 141.

Sandpiper, spotted (Actitis macularia), notes of, 115, 120.

Scotch, the, contrasted with the English, 45; acquaintances among, 46, 47; a trait of, 47, 48; their love for Burns, 48.

Scotland, first sight of, 2-7; mountains of, 6, 7, 21-25; tour through, 8; moorlands of, 25; streams and lakes of, 25, 26; plowing in, 53, 54; work of women and girls in the fields in, 54; country houses and village houses in, 62, 63; free use of paint in, 69, 70. See Great Britain.

Scotsbrig, 62.

Scott, Sir Walter, Carlyle on, 201, 202, 225.

Sea. See Ocean.

Sedge-warbler, song of, 85.

Selbourne, 40, 103-105, 108, 109.

Shackerford, 94-102.

Shakespeare, quotations from, 42, 69, 78, 147, 161-164, 184; and other authors, 147, 210, 212.

Shakespeare's Cliff, 14.

Shawangunk Mountains, 37.

Shilfa. See Chaffinch.

Ship-building on the Clyde, 4-6.

Shottery, the fields about, 16, 17.

Skylark, 80; in America, 116; at the head of a series of British song-birds, 142, 143; song of, 4, 11, 18, 86, 114, 116, 118, 119, 126, 129, 132.

Snails, ants and snail, 180, 181; abundance of, in England, 195, 196.

Snowbird, or slate-colored junco (Junco hyemalis), song of, 125.

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