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Written while traveling to St. Petersburg with Francis Dana.
JQA interrupted his diary entry with a poem copied from a British periodical, the Spectator. In the period, it was a common practice to write out interesting quotations from one's reading.
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when we got opposite Cologne, where there is a village, inhabited by Jews; A Nasty, dirty, Place indeed, and fit only for Jews to live in.

From the Spectator. (continued from yesterday).

Adams, John Quincy. Diary Entry, July 12, 1781. 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). Pages 93-94.