1[Diary entry: 21 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
21. Rid to the Ferry Plantation and to the Fishing Landing where a few Fish were catchd in the Sein.
2[Diary entry: 21 February 1772] (Washington Papers)
21. Calm, clear, and very warm in the forenoon. But Cloudy a little in the Afternoon & Wind Easterly. Jonathan Boucher today wrote GW from Maryland and began with an observation about the weather: “I congratulate You, & the World with Us, on our Restoration to a temperate Zone; for, in Truth, We have had a kind of a Greenland Winter” ( DLC:GW ).
3To George Washington from Jonathan Boucher, 21 February 1772 (Washington Papers)
I congratulate You, & the World with Us, on our Restoration to a temperate Zone: for, in Truth, We have had a kind of a Greenland Winter. And, for my own Part, I own to You, I now have a much stronger Idea of the Nature of a Winter pass’d in a Cave, than I could ever have learn’d from Books alone. I sometimes almost regretted, We could not become quite torpid, & sleep out the whole dreary...