John Quincy Adams diary 23, 1 January 1795 - 12 May 1801, 5 August 1809 -
30 April 1836, page 218
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August 1809
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Tuesday
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5. Saturday. Diary. Vol: 3.
begins: Sailed in Ship Horace, Benjamin Beckford. from Charlestown to St.
Petersburg
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Thick fog. Scanty Wind- On George's Bank.
Lat: 42-34. Read Massillon's Carême Sermons 2 & 3. Ladies &c
Sick.
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Fog. No
Observation. Spoke a fishing Schooner from Grand Bank, bound to Plymouth. Read
Chantreau's travels.
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Thick fogs
all day. No observation. Saw a Schooner. Read Langhorne's Life of Plutarch, and
began with Theseus.
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Fogs and a
fresh breeze. Passed a Schooner. Lat: 43-29. Long: 61. Severe Squall while we
were at dinner-
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Squally
Night and rainy Morning. Saw a Ship. Lat: 43-49. Long: 56-30. Read Plutarch's
life of Romulus.
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Up great
part of the Night. wife and child sick. Lat: 43-39. Saw nothing. Calm day. Read
Mrs Grant's Letters.
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Calm
morning, and stiff head breeze all the rest of the day. Lat: 43-52. Read lives
of Lycurgus and of Numa-
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Head winds and fogs- No observation. Lat:
43-44. Read two Sermons of Massillon; and made minutes from
Plutarch-
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Fair
weather, smooth Water and head winds. Lat: 43-26. Long: 54-30. Read Plutarch's
Life of Lycurgus.
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Weather
fine- wind scanty. Lat: 44-13. Long: 53-40. This afternoon I found the Caboose
on fire.
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Grand Bank-
Fishing from 2 to 9 A.M- 60 fish. No Obs: Lat: 44-41. Long: 51-30. Sent Letters
on board the Dove-
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Fair day
and fine wind. Lat: 45-23. Long: 50-37. Eveg off the Bank- Lives of
Themistocles and Camillus.
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Charles two
years old- Fair wind and thick fogs. No obs: Lat: 46-32. Long: 48-50. Pericles
& Mrs. Grant's Letters
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Fresh and
Fair breeze, and thick fog. No Obs: Lat: 48. Long: 45-37. Horn blown- Sail
Split. Fabius Maximus
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Calm and fair day. Lat: 48-35. Long: 43-50.
Read two Sermons of Massillon. W. S. Smith saw a vessel. Evening
fog.
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Clear,
fresh and fair breeze. Lat: 49-23. Long: 41-53. Life of Alcibiades. Wrote with
interruptions.
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Brisk and
fair gale. dead-lights down. Lat: 51-11. Long: 38-51. Life of Coriolanus.
Writing. Cards in the Eve.
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Gale of
Wind at W. N.W- 186 miles- Heavy Swell. Lat: 52-46. Long: 34-30. Timoleon and
Paulus AEmilius-
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Wind
abated. calm- South breeze. Rain. Eve clear: No obs: Lat: 53-59. Long: 30-40.
Read life of Pelopidas.
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Moderate
breezes, with Showers. Heavy N. W. swell- Lat: 55-36. Long: 28-20. Marcellus-
Absalom & Achitophel.
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Mild
weather; light winds. Rain and Sun. Lat: 56-31. Long: 26-18. Aristides and Cato
the Censor.
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Fine day. Light wind. Lat: 57-39. Long:
23-50. Read two Sermons of Massillon. on Relapses and Prayer. Lunar
Rainbow-
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Total calm
all day. Lat: 58-19. Long: 22-10. Philiopoemen and Flaminius. Saw a Whale-
Cards in the Eve
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Light and
variable winds. Lat: 58-25. Long: 20-53. Pyrrhus and Caius Marius. Savary's
Mahomet- Cards.
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Winds
variable. Calms, Showers and Squalls. Lat: 58-50. Long: 19-20. Lysander and
Sylla. Evening Cards-
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Calm and
light winds. Pleasant weather. Lat: 59-23. Long: 17-15. Cimon and Lucullus.
Cards.
