[Diary entry: 8 March 1785]

Tuesday 8th. Mercury at 43 in the Morning, 42 at Noon and 38 at Night.

In the Night there fell a good deal of rain which about Sun rise changed to hail & sleet wch. prevailed through the day and loaded the Trees with Ice with the weight of which the Evergreen in my Shrubberies were a good deal bowed.

Wind pretty fresh all day at East. The ground was covered about an Inch with the hail &ca.

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Title: [Diary entry: 8 March 1785]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 8 March 1785

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 8 March 1785],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0002-0003-0008. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 99.]