been awakened from their torpor by this transit of Belleisle.
Happily the bogs themselves are iron; deepest bog will bear.

"Festititz tries us twice,--very anxious to get Belleisle's Army-
chest, or money; we give him torrents of sharp shot instead.
Festititz, these two chief times, we pepper rapidly into the Hills
again; he is reduced to hang prancing on our flanks and rear.
Men bivouac over fires of turf, amid snow, amid frost; tear down,
how greedily, any wood-work for fire. Leave a trumpet to beg
quarter for the frozen and speechless;--which is little respected:
they are lugged in carts, stript by the savageries, and cruelly
used. There were first extensive plains, then boggy passes,
intricate mouutains; bog and rock; snow and VERGLAS.--On the 26th,
after indescribable endeavors, we got into Eger;--some 1,300 (about
one in ten) left frozen in the wilderness; and half the Army
falling ill at Eger, of swollen limbs, sore-throats, and other
fataler diseases, fatal then, or soon after. Chevert, at Prag,
refused summons from Prince Lobkowitz: 'No, MON PRINCE; not by any
means! We will die, every man of us, first; and we will burn Prag
withal!'--So that Lobkowitz had to consent to everything;
and escort Chevert to Eger, with bag and baggage, Lobkowitz
furnishing the wagons.

"Comparable to the Retreat of Xenophon! cry many. Every Retreat is
compared to that. A valiant feat, after all exaggerations. A thing
well done, say military men;--'nothing to object, except that the
troops were so ruined;'--and the most unmilitary may see, it is the
work of a high and gallant kind of man. One of the coldest
expeditions ever known. There have been three expeditions or
retreats of this kind which were very cold: that of those Swedes in