Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1781-08-27
This day at about 10 o'clock A.M. we arriv'd at St.
Petersburg having left Narva yesterday morning at about 9 ½ o'clock. The roads in
general are very good, the country in some part is sandy; but there it is almost all paved,
the distance is about 145 Wersts.