The weather is very much like that of the Bank. The Courier has taken two fish. At twelve
o clock we shall Sound. 4 o clock. We have not sounded. Very foggy all this day.
“Tuesday 23d.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0001-0001-0012. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 5.]