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[Diary entry: 31 January 1786]

Tuesday 31st. Thermometer at 42 in the Morning—40 at Noon and 34 at Night.

The morning was a little cloudy but the weather soon cleared with a brisk No. Wester which occasioned a great change in the air.

Planted a few pine trees in my Wildernesses.

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    “[Diary entry: 31 January 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0003-0001-0031. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 269.]