get on! As we shall see on this occasion,--to which let us hasten
(as to a feast not of dainties, but of honest SAUERKRAUT and
wholesome herbs), without farther parley.

Oberamtmann Fromme (whom I mark "Ich") LOQUITUR: "Major-General
Graf von Gortz," whom Fromme keeps strictly mute all day, is a
distinguished man, of many military and other experiences;
much about Friedrich in this time and onwards. [Supra, 399.]
Introduces strangers, &c.; Bouille took him for "Head Chamberlain,"
four or five years after this. He is ten years the King's junior;
a Hessian gentleman;--eldest Brother of the Envoy Gortz who in his
cloak of darkness did such diplomacies in the Bavarian matter,
January gone a year, and who is a rising man in that line ever
since. But let Fromme begin:-- [ Anekdoten und Karakterzuge
aus dem Leben Friedrich des Zweyten (Berlin, bei
Johann Friedrich Unger, 1787), 8te Sammlung, ss. 15-79.]

"On the 23d of July, 1779, it pleased his Majesty the King to
undertake a journey to inspect those" mud "Colonies in the Rhyn-
Luch about Neustadt-on-the-Dosse, which his Majesty, at his own
cost, had settled; thereby reclaiming a tract of waste moor (EINEN
ODEN BRUCH URBAR MACHEN) into arability, where now 308 families
have their living.

"His Majesty set off from Potsdam about 5 in the morning," in an
open carriage, General von Gortz along with him, and horses from
his own post-stations; "travelled over Ferlaudt, Tirotz,
Wustermark, Nauen, Konigshorst, Seelenhorst, Dechau, Fehrbellin,"
[See Reimann's KREIS-KARTEN, Nos. 74,73.] and twelve other small
peat villages, looking all their brightest in the morning sun,--