10 Hot: Numbers 20:23-24—“And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom saying,/ Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.”

11 Lunenburg: A town in northern Vermont.

12 Garrison: William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79), American journalist and abolitionist.

13 Whittier: James Greenleaf Whittier (1807-72), American poet.

14 the principle . . . Welshman got it planted: In the Declaration of Independence (adopted July 4, 1776), Jefferson wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” In his Autobiography, Jefferson wrote that his father’s ancestors were thought to have come to America from Wales.

15 Creed . . . Hades: The Apostle’s Creed, where “hell” was sometimes translated “Hades.”

16 chewink: Finch.

17 A Servant to Servants: Genesis 9:25—the curse of Ham for seeing Noah naked, “a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”

18 Bow: Village in southeast New Hampshire.

19 “You riddle . . . Viola: In Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 1.5.298-99, Viola, disguised as a page, responds to a question about her parentage: “Above my fortunes, yet my state is well: I am a gentleman.”

20 Chicamoztoc: Myth of the pre-Columbian Aztec Indians of Mexico.

21 Nausicaa: In Homer’s Odyssey, book 6, the Phaeacian princess remains unafraid encountering the naked, shipwrecked Odysseus. She guides him to her father, who eventually returns him to Ithaca.

22 Lagshang: Large Asiatic breed of poultry.

23 Crystal Palace, London: An immense building of glass built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851; in 1854, it was moved to Sydenham, south of London, where it was used for public exhibits of the achievements of Victorian England, including livestock and poultry shows. It burned down in 1936.

24 blessed feet?: Cf. Shakespeare, I Henry IV, 1.1.24-26—“. . . holy fields/Over whose acres walked those blessed feet/Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed/For our advantage on the bitter cross.”

25 Burroughs . . . reginœ: John Burroughs (1837-1921), American naturalist and author; Cyprepedium regince means “Queen’s orchid.”

26 Good Hours: Not in the first English edition of North of Boston (1914); Frost added the poem in the American edition (1915), where it is set at the end in italics.

27 MOUNTAIN INTERVAL: An interval, or intervale, is a New England term for low-lying land, especially along a watercourse. Mountain Interval was published in 1916 in New York by Henry Holt.