Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1765 · Île Saint-Pierre
Row on the lake or walk the island
13:00–17:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 13:00–17:00 is an illustrative afternoon block, not a documented duration.Source timing: After the daytime meal; afternoon
“then leaping into the boat, rowed it to the middle of the Lake”“When the Lake was too much agitated to permit my navigating it with safety, I passed the afternoon in walking through the island”
Two separate excerpts · Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Anonymous English translation, third edition, 1796; Project Gutenberg Australia transcription
Fifth Walk · recurring habits on Île Saint-Pierre
Passage: Fifth Walk · paragraphs beginning The exercise I had taken in the morning and When the Lake was too much agitated
Timing & context
These are weather-dependent alternatives, not consecutive activities.
Recurring habits from the Fifth Walk, rather than one dated outing. Activities varied with weather; all clock times are estimates.
Habits during his stay on Île Saint-Pierre in 1765, recalled in the Fifth Walk.
University of Geneva · chronology (1765) ↗