Wednesday 16th. Thermometer at 32 in the Morning—37 at Noon and 36 at Night. Wind at So. Et. & pretty fresh all day with constant rain—notwithstanding which little or no impression was made on the frozen ground by either for it still continued hard. Snow in the open grd. almost entirely carrd. away.
[Diary entry: 16 January 1788]
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- [Diary entry: 16 January 1788]
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- Washington, George
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- 16 January 1788
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- Year: At Mount Vernon
- Month: January 1788
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- “[Diary entry: 16 January 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0001-0016. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, pp. 265–266.]