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Daniel Robinson

出版	1865
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LXjZwQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Robinson kept this diary from July 24, 1865, to May 16, 1866, the last year of his life. The diary is full of introspective personal and religious commentary. On his 89th birthday (April 8, 1866) Robinson comments, "This is my Birthday: I am eighty nine years of age this day and a great sinner: an enormous violator of the laws and commandments of my God, though he hath been all my long sinful life through, so wonderfully and surprisingly merciful, and astonishingly gracious ... ". Robinson writes of using his telescope and notes the appearance and positions of Venus, Jupiter, and other planets and stars. On January 14, 1866, he records " ... there was a shock of an earthquake in Hallowell and fissures or cracks and crevices were produced in the Earth by the sides of roads or streets. He also writes about family and household events and notes the deaths of neighbors and friends. Accompanying the diary is the author's corrected proof of the Maine Farmers' Almanac for 1829.