Clear and very warm. Morning in town. Afternoon spent in reading and attending to my trees affected by the dry weather. Evening, a call at Mr. Daniel Greenleaf’s for a short time and at the Mansion but hurried home from both by the threat of a thunder shower which however passed south.

Did little in town, having no business. The Afternoon was also much taken up by the process of refreshing my trees, made somewhat fatiguing by the hot weather. Lucretius 735–783. A pretty obscure part of the text. The author is vigorous but not clear. Our visit, (my Wife, and Mary with me) to Mr. Greenleafs was cut short by a dark cloud. It is one of the return visits in the neighborhood which I have neglected too long. After our return home I read a few of Bayle’s letters which fail in interest.