We rose this morning at about 7. o’clock and left Warberg, we rode till about Nine o’clock
this evening when we arrived at Halmstad. The distance is about 7. Swed: miles. The roads
are extremely bad all the way.
“13th. Thursd.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0002-0008. [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. 170.]