251Wednesday July the 25th 1781. (Adams Papers)
On Monday at about 1 o’clock P.M. we set away from Leipsig for Berlin, Where we arriv’d this day at about 11 o’clock A.M. The distance is 120 English Miles; The soil, all the way is thin and sandy, and some part of the way foresty. We rode all night on Monday. At about half past eleven at Night, being in the middle of a Forest and the road being at the bottom of a hill, The postilon run our...
252Thursday July 26th 1781. (Adams Papers)
Nothing remarkable this day.
253Friday July 27th 1781. (Adams Papers)
This morning we went to see the kings arsenal, The break in the present entry and the absence of all succeeding entries to that of 17 Aug., together with the opening lines of that entry, are attributable to the loss of MS p. 149–156; see note to entry of 8 July (above). The journey from Berlin to Riga can be reconstructed from Dana’s Journal. They remained in Berlin until 2 Aug. On that...
254[August 1781] (Adams Papers)
Nie mersat we enter’d Poland and were searched there, and about a Mile farther we enter’d into Courland which is a Prus- sian Polish Province , taken from Poland in the late division . We rode in Courland till we came at about 60 English Miles from this place and then we enter’d Semigaul Semigallia , which is a different Province but the same dutchy as Courland; it is call’d the dutchy of...
255Friday August 17th 1781. (Adams Papers)
Nie mersat we enter’d Poland and were searched there, and about a Mile farther we enter’d into Courland which is a Prus- sian Polish Province , taken from Poland in the late division . We rode in Courland till we came at about 60 English Miles from this place and then we enter’d Semigaul Semigallia , which is a different Province but the same dutchy as Courland; it is call’d the dutchy of...
256Monday August 20th. 1781. (Adams Papers)
This day at about 2 o’clock P.M we left Riga, and arriv’d at a village call’d Neuermuhlen at about half past 4, here we are obliged to stop because we found all the horses were gone away; The road is sandy from Riga here, and the land bad. JQA and Dana remained in Riga over the weekend (18–19 Aug.) in order to obtain the passport mentioned in the previous Diary entry ( Dana, Journal ).
257Friday August 24th. 1781. (Adams Papers)
This day at about 3 o’clock P.M. we arriv’d at Narva after having rode night and day from Neuermuhlen Which we left the 21st at about 3 o’clock A.M. The distance from Riga here is 409 Russian Wersts 7 of Which make 5 English Miles; Part of this way, the roads are very fine as is the soil but here and there you find a station of Sand. Just before you come to Nenal (a Village which is about 110...
258Monday August 27th. 1781. (Adams Papers)
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.
259John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 1 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
We arrived here on Monday the 16/27 instant having left Amsterdam the N.S. 7th of July And rode the greatest part of the way day and night. The distance is about 2400 English Miles. The first place of any consequence we stopp’d at was Berlin the capital of the king of Prussia’s Dominions; this is a very pretty town, much more so than Paris, or London as Mr. Dana says; but it will be still more...
260John Quincy Adams to John Thaxter, 19 September 1781 (Adams Papers)
We arriv’d here the 16th of August old stile, (which is universally used yet, all over this Country;) having left Berlin, the 2d. of the same month, new stile, and rode the whole way, day and night, stopping only at the principal towns which lay in our way, viz: at Dantzic, three days, at Konigsberg, one, at Memel, one night, at Riga, four days, and at Narva, two: between these places, which...