Third Journey (MS 107/2)
7th October 1778
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[7th October 1778]
7
seer mistig met den dag. reden na het riviertje daar wy ontbeten, en arriveerden hannes de beer en ik na sons onder gang op zyn vaders plaats onder sneewberg op den dag goed weer z:o: koelte. met den avond betrokke regen lugt uit den z:o: term: van 53 tot 64 en daalde tot 57.
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[7th October 1778]
7
Very misty at daybreak. We rode to the rivulet where we had breakfast and we arrived, Hannes de Beer and I, at his father’s farm below the Sneeuwberg after sunset. Good weather during the day; cool, with a south-east wind. At evening overcast, rainy sky from the south-east. Thermometer from 35 degrees to 64 degree,s and fell to 57 degrees.