I finished the second volume of Blackstone, and began upon the third which treats of private wrongs. And this evening I got through Buffon's natural history of man, which is still more entertaining than the theory of the earth.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/