Morning clear but with a high Wind. I read Kotzebue a short time, but began today my review of the Orations on the Crown. I hope this will be of some service to me for certainly I devote time enough to it. By it I hope to keep up my knowledge of Greek. As it is now probable that I shall have the Summer entirely to myself in town, I think I shall have a fine opportunity to pursue my studies upon a more extensive scale than ever. I have almost innumerable plans. Besides my pursuit of Latin and Greek, and the reading at my Office, I have become interested in the knowledge of facts relating to the examination of a North West Passage, and I have not abandoned the project of recovering German. This may seem a little too much at once but I know no rule more decisive for a man’s conduct in life than not to be discouraged by small things.

Took a walk with my Wife and made some purchases for the Quincy House. At the Office, Engaged in Accounts. Quarter day and I drew up my bills as usual and balanced my Cash Books. Then a walk for exercise, having finished the Republic of Plato and the Utopia of T. More.1 They are the schemes of visionaries. After dinner, I finished the Oration for Muraena. A laboured and a great effort. The explanation of legal quibbles and the doctrine of the Stoics is ably and curiously managed. Evening, Parry. Finished the third Volume of Kotzebue and read the Spectator.