Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1

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Tuesday March 1st. 1785. JQA Tuesday March 1st. 1785. Adams, John Quincy
Tuesday March 1st. 1785.

Coldest weather we have had this year. Reaumur's thermometer at 8 degrees below the freezing point. Abbé de Chalût told me last evening, that neither he nor his brother, (and they are both turned of seventy,) remember ever to have experienced so cold weather in the beginning of March.