As to the right Column, or Schwerin's Division, that, after a
rest-day or two, gathers itself into more complete separation here,
tucking in its eastern skirts; and gets on march again, by its own
route. Steadily southward;--and from Liegnitz, and the upland
Countries, there will be news of Schwerin and it before long.
Rain ending, there ensued a ringing frost;--not favorable for
Siege-operations on Glogau:--and Silesia became all of flinty
glass, with white peaks to the Southwest, whither Schwerin is gone.



Chapter III.

PROBLEM OF GLOGAU.

Friedrich was over from Herrendorf with the first daylight,
"reconnoitring Glogau, and rode up to the very glacis;" scanning it
on all sides. [Ib. i. 484.] Since Wallis is so resolute, here is an
intricate little problem for Friedrich, with plenty of corollaries
and conditions hanging to it. Shall we besiege Glogau, then? We
have no siege-cannon here. Time presses, Breslau and all things in
such crisis; and it will take time. By what methods COULD Glogau be
besieged?--Readers can consider what a blind many-threaded coil of
things, heaping itself here in wide welters round Glogau, and
straggling to the world's end, Friedrich has on hand: probably
those six days, of Head-quarters at Herrendorf, were the busiest he
had yet had.

One thing is evident, there ought to be siege-cannon got
straightway; and, still more immediate, the right posts and