thereabouts,--was completely gathered foremost of all the Columns,
having farthest to go. And on Monday, 18th April, started from
Landshut, Winterfeld leading one division. In our days, it is the
finest of roads; high level Pass, of good width, across the Giant
Range; pleasant painted hamlets sprinkling it, fine mountain ridges
and distant peaks looking on; Schneekoppe (SNOWfell, its head
bright-white till July come) attends you, far to the right, all the
way:--probably Sprite Rubezahl inhabits there; and no doubt River
Elbe begins his long journey there, trickling down in little
threads over yonder, intending to float navies by and by:
considerations infinitely indifferent to Schwerin. 'The road,' says
my Tourist, (is not Alpine; it reminds you of Derbyshire-Peak
country; more like the road from Castletown to Sheffield than any I
could name;'--we have been in it before, my reader and I, about
Schatzlar and other places. Trautenau, well down the Hills, with
swift streams, more like torrents, bound Elbe-wards, watering it,
is a considerable Austrian Town, and the Bohemian end of the Pass,
--Sohr only a few miles from it: heartily indifferent to Schwerin
at this moment; who was home from the Army, in a kind of disfavor,
or mutual pet, at the time Sohr was done. Schwerin's March we shall
not give; his junction with Bevern (at Turnau, on the Iser, April
24th), then their capture of Jung-Bunzlau Magazine, and crossing of
the Elbe at Melnick, these were the important points; and, in spite
of Konigseck's tusslings, these all went well, and nothing was lost
except one day of time."

The Austrians, some days ago, as we observed, filed THROUGH Prag,--
Sunday, May 1st, not a pleasant holiday-spectacle to the
populations;--and are all encamped on the Ziscaberg high ground, on
the other side of the City. Had they been alert, now was the time