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[Diary entry: 20 August 1786]

Sunday 20th. Mercury at 69 to day, Morng.—at 74 at Noon and 70 at Night.

Very little Wind at any period of the day—lowering for the most part and in the Morning a little misty.

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    [Diary entry: 20 August 1786]
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    Washington, George
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    20 August 1786

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    “[Diary entry: 20 August 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0001-0002-0020. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 29.]