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14 September 1796
Wednesday 14
shruboack are very tough.
Thursday 15
Uncertainty again pervads my soul and I am again tormented
by fears of the itch.
Garland, Holbrook [Harris?], Wells and myself carried
some pine wood into an old woman's house at a little
[distance?] from Whitaker's.
Fryday 16
Made an agreement with [Benjaman?] to go [?] with
his in [Mysergers'?] [?].
Nothing of consequence has happened this day:
Saturday 17
Wrote a letter to my father, and to my sister, so that
of course I did not attend french [lectur?].
In the afternoon Allen and I walked over to [L Cam-
bridge?], where we enjoyed from a hill the most exten-
sive prospect I ever beheld. On one side Boston
with its two bridges and harbor, an on the other
the whole town of Cam- with the colleges, and then
again the hill was surrounded by cornfields and orchard
lowlands and smaller hills most delightfully [interspersed?]
and to crown the whole the majestic Charles [?]
roaling his waves toward old ocean.
Sunday 10
Nothing of consequence
19 September 1769
Monday 19
So I remain in status quo, hoping for vacations in the
strongest manner possible. Again I am uncertain concern-
ing the itch. In the evening I went to the [dansing?] school
as made blundery work.
Tuesday 20
Nothing of consequence
Wednesday 21
Dit.
Thursday 22
At one O'clock in the afternoon I went to Boston
in company with Bean. We visited several part
of the town, in the north part we viewed the
[?] [?] building; and whose [?], inspires the
[mind?], at least of a person, who is unacquainted with
such objects, with wonder and surprize at the extent
[and?] capasity of the genius of man.
Next we visited the stone [ware?] manufactory, and with
surpise beheld the [?] of [?] the [?].
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