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Dates:

( circa conjectural )

7 Aug. 1800

Original paper slip text:[ca. 7 Aug. 1800]

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA.

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Title:

[Poem; his thoughts on Mount Giant in Silesia]: "From lands beyond the vast Atlantic tide ...."

Length:

1 p. (copy, in hand of Joseph Ward)

Notes:

Prefatory quotation: "Sentiments of devotion, I have always found the first to take possession of the mind, on ascending lofty mountains."
Note: For an account of his trip up Mount Giant, see JQA to TBA, 7 Aug. 1800 (Lb 7579).

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