languor and disagreeable affection of the head remaining through the day.
   August 2d.  A. Tiebout and I have started some notions about flying, which from several considerations appears practicable by man.—T. is to make some machinery for an experiment.
   4th. I found three others of my patients in an unfavourable situation.—I began to feel like a mariner benighted among shoals & quicksands.—One of Mrs. Harris’s friends proposed sending for another Physician.—I requested that she would first try the application of a blister plaster over her stomach. She did, and in a short time the pain was entirely removed. In the evening I saw the three other patients again, and had reason to think I could avoid the shoals & quicksands, with the blessing of Providence.
   5th. This forenoon I took a walk to the house where G. Baker’s family have removed. It is about a mile from town, adjoining to the spot of ground now inclosing for the ascent of the balloon. Mr. Blanchard was busy with the balloon which cover’d the floor of a large room.
   Last evening I ate two glasses of ice-cream with the hope of curing a cold.—This did not answer the purpose effectually.—After tea I took a dose of salts.