Cloudy weather. We din’d at Palentia [Palencia] which is a city as
Large as Corunna. At about 7 oclock P.M. we arrived at Torre quemada [Torquemada] which is 7 Leagues from Parades de naba.
“Sunday 9th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0002-0001-0009. [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. 28.]