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11 o clock. Very foggy. We can't see Land now. 4 o clock. It has clear'd up. We can see Land very plain now.

Adams, John Quincy. Diary entry, December 7, 1779. Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society. Published in Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 1: November 1779 - March 1786 (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981). Page 9.