THE WRITINGS OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
IN TWENTY VOLUMES
VOLUME III
MANUSCRIPT EDITION
LIMITED TO SIX HUNDRED COPIES
NUMBER ——
THE WRITINGS OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
THE MAINE WOODS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
MDCCCCVI
COPYRIGHT 1864 BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS
COPYRIGHT 1892, 1893, AND 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
| SNOWBERRY, Carbon photograph |
| MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO, |
| MAINE WILDERNESS |
| PINE TREE, BOAR MOUNTAIN |
| SQUAW MOUNTAIN, MOOSEHEAD LAKE |
| MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO |
| MOUNT KINEO CLIFF |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Maine Woods was the second volume collectedfrom his writings after Thoreau’s death. Of the materialwhich composed it, the first two divisions were alreadyin print. “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods” was the titleof a paper printed in 1848 in The Union Magazine,and