redoubts and them! Cavalry may sweep still farther southward, if
found convenient, and even take them in rear." Both agree that it
will do in this way: ground tolerably good, slightly downwards for
us, then slightly upwards again; tolerable for horse even:--the
intermediate lacing of dirty lakelets, the fish-ponds with their
sluices drawn, Schwerin and Winterfeld either did not notice at
all, or thought them insiginificant, interspersed with such
beautiful "pasture-ground,"--of unusual verdure at this early
season of the year.

The deployment, or "marching up (AUFMARSCHIREN)" of the Prussians
was wonderful; in their squadrons, in their battalions, horse,
foot, artillery, wheeling, closing, opening; strangely checkering a
country-side,--in movements intricate, chaotic to all but the
scientific eye. Conceive them, flowing along, from the Heights of
Chaber, behind Prossik Hamlet (right wing of infantry plants itself
at Prossik, horse westward of them); and ever onwards in broad
many-checkered tide-stream, eastward, eastward, then southward
("our artillery went through Podschernitz, the foot and horse a
little on this westward side of it"): intricate, many-glancing tide
of coming battle; which, swift, correct as clock-work, becomes two
lines, from Prossik to near Chwala ("baggage well behind at
Gbell"); thence round by Podschernitz quarter; and descends,
steady, swift, tornado-storm so beautifully hidden in it, towards
Sterbohol, there to grip to. Gradually, in stirring up those old
dead pedantic record-books, the fact rises on us: silent whirlwinds
of old Platt-Deutsch fire, beautifully held down, dwell in those
mute masses; better human stuff there is not than that old Teutsch
(Dutch, English, Platt-Deutsch and other varieties); and so
disciplined as here it never was before or since. "In an hour and