A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.
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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,--
"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