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Index

Pine, long-leafed, 54, 55, 108, 130.

Pines, 26, 101.

Pinus Cubensis, 91, 108.

Pinus palustris, 55, 91.

Plant, striking power of adaptation of, 162, 163.

Plant-gold, 148.

Plants and minerals, assumed to be made for man, 137, 138; sensation in, 140.

Polygalas, 26.

Polypodium hexagonopterum, 33.

Pomegranate, 56, 57.

Prater, Mr., friend of Muir’s, 48,49.

Pteris aquilina. See Brake, common.

Quail (bob-white), 135.

Rabbit, jackass, 200-202.

Rainy season, 204–206.

Rattlesnakes, 49, 51.

River, adventure in crossing, 50.

Rivers: Chagres, 187; Chattahoochee, 47, 48; Clinch, 31; Cumberland, 14; Emory, 30; Hiwassee, 41, 42; Merced, 188; Salt, 3; Savannah, 58.

Robins, 135.

Rolling Fork, 3.

Salt River, 3.

San Francisco, 188.

San Joaquin valley, 190.

Sand dunes, 72.

Sandy Hook, 184.

Savannah, Georgia, 65.

Savannah River, 58.

Scale-mosses (Madotheca), 31.

Schrankia, sensitive brier, 18, 19.

Scott, Gen. Winfield, 43.

Scuppernong grape, 49.

Sea, beautiful in storm, 177, 178, 183; our ignorance of, 182.

Sea-islands, 86.

Sheep, predestined purpose of, 137.

Sherman, Gen. W. T., 61.

Ship, enjoyable life on, 177-180, 184.

Sierra Nevada, 190, 192-94, 212.

Simmons, Captain, 111–14.

Solidagoes, 26, 56, 72, 109.

Spanish bayonet, 132, 133.

Spinning, in mountain cabins, 37; among Georgia farmers, 84.

Spleenwort, ebony, 33.

Squirrel, ground, 202, 203.

Steerage, 187.

Storm at sea, 145-47, 177, 178, 183.

Sunflowers, 3.

Sunset, gorgeous, 53, 143.

Swamps, Florida, 83–122; vine-tangled, 90, 91, 111, 118, 120; night in, 93-95, 110.

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