"to the hills at Stollen, where his Majesty, because a view of all
the Colonies could be had from those hills, was pleased to get out
for a little," as will afterwards be seen.--"Therefrom the journey
went by Hohen-Nauen to Rathenau:" a civilized place, "where his
Majesty arrived about 3 in the afternoon; and there dined, and
passed the night.-- Next morning, about 6, his Majesty continued
his drive into the Magdeburg region; inspected various reclaimed
moors (BRUCHE), which in part are already made arable, and in part
are being made so; came, in the afternoon, about 4, over Ziesar and
Brandenburg, back to Potsdam,--and did not dine till about 4, when
he arrived there, and had finished the Journey." His usual dinner-
hour is 12; the STATE hour, on gala days when company has been
invited, is 1 P.M.,--and he always likes his dinner; and has it of
a hot peppery quality!

"Till Seelenhorst, the Amtsrath Sach of Konigshorst had ridden
before his Majesty; but here," at the border of my Fehrbellin
district, where with one of his forest-men I was in waiting by
appointment, "the turn came for me. About 8 o'clock A.M. his
Majesty arrived in Seelenhorst; had the Herr General Graf von Gortz
in the carriage with him," Gortz, we need n't say, sitting back
foremost:--here I, Fromme, with my woodman was respectfully in
readiness. "While the horses were changing, his Majesty spoke with
some of the Ziethen Hussar-Officers, who were upon grazing service
in the adjoining villages [all Friedrich's cavalry went out to
GRASS during certain months of the year; and it was a LAND-TAX on
every district to keep its quota of army-horses in this manner,--
AUF GRASUNG]; and of me his Majesty as yet took no notice. As the
DAMME," Dams or Raised Roads through the Peat-bog, "are too narrow
hereabouts, I could not, ride beside him," and so went before? or