1779, Fryday July 30. [from the Diary of John Adams]
1779, Fryday July 30.
We are not yet arrived to the Bane of St. George. Calms, contrary Winds &c. detain Us. Saw a Whale spouting and blowing and leaping to day in our Wake—a Grampus they say.
“1779, Fryday July 30.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-02-02-0009-0006-0006. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 2, 1771–1781, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, pp. 399–400.]