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    A Yankee in Canada by Henry David Thoreau - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, thinker, naturalist, and leading transcendental philosopher. Graduating from Harvard, Thoreau’s academic fortitude inspired much of his political thought and lead to him being an early and unequivocal adopter of the abolition movement. This ideology inspired his writing of Civil Disobedience and countless other works that contributed to his influence on society. Inspired by the principals of transcendental philosophy and desiring to experience spiritual awakening and enlightenment through nature, Thoreau worked hard at reforming his previous self into a man of immeasurable self-sufficiency and contentment. It was through Thoreau’s dedicated pursuit of knowledge that some of the most iconic works on transcendentalism were created.

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      A Yankee in Canada by Henry David Thoreau - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Henry David Thoreau

      The Complete Works of

      HENRY DAVID THOREAU

      VOLUME 5 OF 38

      A Yankee in Canada

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 1

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘A Yankee in Canada’

      Henry David Thoreau: Parts Edition (in 38 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

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      Henry David Thoreau: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 5 of the Delphi Classics edition of Henry David Thoreau in 38 Parts. It features the unabridged text of A Yankee in Canada from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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      HENRY DAVID THOREAU

      IN 38 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Books

      1, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

      2, Walden, Or, Life in the Woods

      3, The Maine Woods

      4, Cape Cod

      5, A Yankee in Canada

      The Essays

      6, Aulus Persius Flaccus

      7, The Service

      8, Natural History of Massachusetts

      9, A Walk to Wachusett

      10, Sir Walter Raleigh

      11, Dark Ages

      12, A Winter Walk

      13, The Landlord

      14, Paradise Regained

      15, Homer. Ossian. Chaucer.

      16, Herald of Freedom

      17, Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum

      18, Thomas Carlyle and His Works

      19, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

      20, Walking

      21, Love

      22, Chastity and Sensuality

      23, Slavery in Massachusetts

      24, Life Without Principle

      25, Autumnal Tints

      26, A Plea for Captain John Brown

      27, Martyrdom of John Brown

      28, The Last Days of John Brown

      29, The Succession of Forest Trees

      30, Wild Apples

      31, Night and Moonlight

      32, Huckleberries

      The Translations

      33, Prometheus Bound of Æschylus

      34, Translations from Pindar

      The Letters

      35, Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau

      The Journals

      36, Thoreau’s Journals

      The Criticism

      37, The Criticism

      The Biography

      38, Thoreau: Biographical Sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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      A Yankee in Canada

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I. CONCORD TO MONTREAL

      CHAPTER II. QUEBEC AND MONTMORENCI

      CHAPTER III. ST. ANNE

      CHAPTER IV. THE WALLS OF QUEBEC

      CHAPTER V. THE SCENERY OF QUEBEC; AND THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE

      The first edition

      A YANKEE IN CANADA

      New England is by some affirmed to be an island, bounded on the north with the River Canada (so called from Monsieur Cane). — Josselyn’s Rarities.

      And still older, in Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan, published in 1632, it is said, on page 97, From this Lake [Erocoise] Northwards is derived the famous River of Canada, so named, of Monsier de Cane, a French Lord, who first planted a colony of French in America.

      CHAPTER I. CONCORD TO MONTREAL

      I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold. I left Concord, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, September 25th, 1850, for Quebec. Fare, seven dollars there and back; distance from Boston, five hundred and ten miles; being obliged to leave Montreal on the return as soon as Friday, October 4th, or within ten days. I will not stop to tell the reader the names of my fellow-travelers; there were said to be fifteen hundred of them. I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

      The country was new to me beyond Fitchburg. In Ashburnham and afterward, as we were whirled rapidly along, I noticed the woodbine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), its leaves now changed, for the most part on dead trees, draping them like a red scarf. It was a little exciting, suggesting bloodshed, or at least a military life, like an epaulet or sash, as if it were dyed with the blood of the trees whose wounds it was inadequate to stanch. For now the bloody autumn was come, and an Indian warfare was waged through the forest. These military trees appeared very numerous, for our rapid progress connected  those that were even some miles apart. Does the woodbine prefer the elm? The first view of Monadnock was obtained five or six miles this side of Fitzwilliam, but nearest and best at Troy and beyond. Then there were the Troy cuts and embankments. Keene Street strikes the traveler favorably, it is so wide, level, straight, and long. I have heard one of my relatives, who was born and bred there, say that you could see a chicken run across it a mile off. I have also been told that when this town was settled they laid out a street four rods wide, but at a subsequent meeting of the proprietors one rose and remarked, We have plenty of land, why not make the street eight rods wide? and so they voted that it should be eight rods wide, and the town is known far and near for its handsome street. It was a cheap way of securing comfort, as well as fame, and I wish that all new towns would take pattern from this. It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide. I know one such Washington city of a man, whose lots as yet are only surveyed and staked out, and, except a cluster of shanties here and there, only the Capitol stands there for all structures,  and any day you may see from afar his princely idea borne coachwise along the spacious but yet empty avenues. Keene is built on a remarkably large and level interval, like the bed of a lake, and the surrounding hills, which are remote from its street, must afford some good walks. The scenery of mountain towns is commonly too much crowded. A town which is built on a plain of some extent, with an open horizon, and surrounded by hills at a distance, affords the best walks and views.

      As we travel northwest up the country, sugar maples, beeches, birches, hemlocks, spruce, butternuts, and ash trees prevail more and more. To the rapid traveler the number of elms in a town is the measure of its civility. One man in the cars has a bottle full of some liquor. The whole company smile whenever it is exhibited. I find no difficulty in containing myself. The Westmoreland country looked attractive. I heard a passenger giving the very obvious derivation of this name, Westmore-land, as if it were purely American, and he had made a discovery; but I thought of my cousin Westmoreland in England. Every one will remember the approach to Bellows Falls, under a high cliff which rises from the Connecticut. I was disappointed in the size of the river here; it appeared shrunk to a mere mountain-stream. The water was evidently very low. The rivers which we had crossed this forenoon possessed more of the character of mountain-streams than those in the vicinity of Concord, and I was surprised to see everywhere traces of recent freshets, which had carried away bridges and injured the railroad, though I had heard  nothing of it. In Ludlow, Mount

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