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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

In Twenty Volumes

VOLUME V

Manuscript Edition
Limited to Six Hundred Copies
Number ----



  [Illustration: _Apple Blossoms (page 294)_]

  [Illustration: _Wild Apple Tree_]



The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

EXCURSIONS AND POEMS







Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin and Company
MDCCCCVI

Copyright 1865 and 1866 by Ticknor and Fields
Copyright 1893 and 1906 by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

All rights reserved




CONTENTS


     INTRODUCTORY NOTE                            xi


     EXCURSIONS

     A YANKEE IN CANADA

       I. CONCORD TO MONTREAL                      3

      II. QUEBEC AND MONTMORENCI                  20

     III. ST. ANNE                                40

      IV