24th. Saturday.

This forenoon the eldest Mr. Montréal came here and I went with him to see the hemp Magazines1 on the other side of the Neva. We walk’d in the Garden. Mr. D. went out in the forenoon. Mr. Rimbert came to see Mr. D.

1. That is, hemp warehouses, built extensively on an island in the Neva River, in the Petersburg quarter of the city (Storch, Picture of Petersburg description begins Henry Storch, Picture of Petersburg, English transl., London, 1801. description ends , p. xvi).

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: 24th. Saturday.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 24 August 1782

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Cite as: “24th. Saturday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0004-0009-0024. [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. 142.]