A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.
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Which took effect accordingly; Fromme riding swiftly at the left
wheel of Friedrich's carriage, and loudly answering questions of
his, all day.--Directly on getting home, Fromme consulted his
excellent memory, and wrote down everything; a considerable Paper,
--of which you shall now have an exact Translation, if it be worth
anything. Fromme gave the Paper to Uncle Gleim; who, in his
enthusiasm, showed it extensively about, and so soon as there was
liberty, had it "printed, at his own expense, for the benefit of
poor soldiers' children." ["Gleim's edition, brought out in 1786,
the year of Friedrich's death, is now quite gone,--the Book
undiscoverable. But the Paper was reprinted in an ANEKDOTEN-
SAMMLUNG (Collection of Anecdotes, Berlin, 1787, 8tes STUCK, where
I discover it yesterday (17th July, 1852) in a copy of mine, much
to my surprise; having before met with it in one Hildebrandt's
ANEKDOTEN-SAMMLUNG (Halberstadt, 1830, 4tes STUCK, a rather
slovenly Book), where it is given out as one of the rarest of all
rarities, and as having been specially 'furnished by a Dr. W.
Korte,' being unattainable otherwise! The two copies differ
slightly here and there,--not always to Dr. Korte's advantage, or
rather hardly ever. I keep them both before me in translating"
(MARGINALE OF 1852).

"The RHYN" or Rhin, is a little river, which, near its higher
clearer sources, we were all once well acquainted with:
considerable little moorland river, with several branches coming
down from Ruppin Country, and certain lakes and plashes there, in a
southwest direction, towards the Elbe valley, towards the Havel
Stream; into which latter, through another plash or lake called
GULPER SEE, and a few miles farther, into the Elbe itself, it
conveys, after a course of say 50 English miles circuitously
southwest, the black drainings of those dreary and intricate
Peatbog-and-Sand countries. "LUCH," it appears, signifies LOCH (or
Hole, Hollow); and "Rhyn-Luch" will mean, to Prussian ears, the
Peatbog Quagmire drained by the RHYN.--New Ruppin, where this
beautiful black Stream first becomes considerable, and of steadily
black complexion, lies between 40 and 50 miles northwest of Berlin.