England, tour in, 9; walks in, 9-20; the green turf of, 20-23, 29, 31, 32; building-stone of, 26; humanization of nature in, 27, 28; repose of the landscape in, 29-34; foliage in, 29-31; cultivated fields of, 32, 33; grazing in, 33; the climate as a promoter of greenness, 33, 34; pastoral beauty of, 35, 36; lack of wild and aboriginal beauty in, 36, 37; no rocks worth mentioning in, 37; woods in, 38-43; plowing in, 53, 54; country houses and village houses in, 62, 63; haying in, 80, 108, 109, 153; a farm and a farmer in the south of, 77, 80, 81; sunken roads of, 94, 95; inns of, 96, 97, 100-103; sturdiness and picturesqueness of the trees in, 97; commons in, 104; weather of, 106, 107; the bird-songs of, compared with those of New York and New England, 113-129; impressions of some birds of, 131-145; stillness at twilight in, 194, 195. _See_ Great Britain. English, the, contrasted with the Scotch, 45; a prolific people, 176-178. Europe, animals and plants of, more versatile and dominating than those of America, 184-186. Farming in the south of England, 80, 81. Fells, in the north of England, 158. Fern, maiden-hair, 173. Fieldfare, 186. Finch, purple (_Carpodacus purpureus_), song of, 118, 120, 123, 129. Finches, songs of, 122, 123. Fir, Scotch, 39. Flicker. _See_ High-hole. Flowers, wild, American more shy and retiring than British, 163, 164, 196; species fewer but individuals more abundant in Great Britain than in America, 165; effect of latitude on the size and color of, 168; effect of proximity to the sea on, 168, 169; British less beautiful but more abundant and noticeable than American, 172, 173; British and American sweet-scented, 173; abundance of British, 196. Flycatcher, British, 121, 189. Flycatcher, great crested (_Myiarchus crinitus_), notes of, 118, 121. Flycatcher, little green or green-crested (_Empidonax virescens_), notes of, 121. Fog, at sea, 271, 272. Foliage, in England and America, 29-31. _See_ Trees. Footpath, an English, 89, 90. Forget-me-not, 196. Fox, European red, 187, 188. Foxglove, 90, 133, 148, 165; a beautiful and conspicuous flower, 166; in poetry, 166, 167, 196. Frederick the Great, 242. Frogs, 194. Froude, James Anthony, his _Thomas Carlyle_, 258, 259. Furze, _or_ whin, 169, 170. Gannets, 189. Garlic, hedge, 172. Geranium, wild, 168. Gillyflower, 162. Glasgow, 2, 8, 9, 46, 47, 72. Globe-flower, 162. Goat Fell, 6. Godalming, 89, 91, 92, 101, 102. Goethe, 225, 227.