Docno: ADMS-03-02-02-0002-0006-0024
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1787-06-24
Attended meeting all day. Mr. Shuttlesworth preach'd; I was much better pleased with
him, than I had expected to be. His language is not perfectly correct, nor his stile
remarkably accurate; but his delivery is agreeable, and his composition cannot be
called bad. I was much pleased with his manner of praying. I walk'd with Mr. Cranch
and his son, this evening, and ascended the highest hill within several miles. We
had a view of the harbour, the sea, and the cluster of islands, which are spread about
thick in the bay; the prospect is beautiful: but a prospect pleases only for a few
moments, and affords no satisfaction to a man, when it has once lost its novelty:
near the top of this hill, we found a living spring, which it is said, in the driest
Seasons, is
{ 245 } always supplied with water. Mr. Cranch started doubts concerning the common theory,
by which this phenomenon of springs is accounted for: it does not perfectly satisfy
him: and indeed I think his objections very just.