beautiful black Stream first becomes considerable, and of steadily
black complexion, lies between 40 and 50 miles northwest of Berlin.
Ten or twelve miles farther north is REINSBERG (properly
RHYNSBERG), where Friedrich as Crown-Prince lived his happiest few
years. The details of which were familiar to us long ago,--and no
doubt dwell clear and soft, in their appropriate "pale moonlight,"
in Friedrich's memory on this occasion. Some time after his
Accession, he gave the place to Prince Henri, who lived there till
1802. It is now fallen all dim; and there is nothing at New Ruppin
but a remembrance.

To the hither edge of this Rhyn-Luoh, from Berlin, I guess there
may be five-and-twenty miles, in a northwest direction;
from Potsdam, whence Friedrich starts to-day, about, the same
distance north-by-west; "at Seelenhorst," where Fromme waits him,
Friedrich has already had 30 miles of driving,--rate 10 miles an
hour, as we chance to observe. Notable things, besides the Spade-
husbandries he is intent on, solicit his remembrance in this
region. Of Freisack and "Heavy-Peg" with her didactic batterings
there, I suppose he, in those fixed times, knows nothing, probably
has never heard: Freisack is on a branch of this same Rhyn, and he
might see it, to left a mile or two, if he cared.

But Fehrbellin ("Ferry of BellEEN"), distinguished by the shining
victory which "the Great Elector," Friedrich's Great-Grandfather,
gained there, over the Swedes, in 1675, stands on the Rhyn itself,
about midway; and Friedrich will pass through it on this occasion.
General Ziethen, too, lives near it at Wusterau (as will be seen):
"Old Ziethen," a little stumpy man, with hanging brows and thick
pouting lips; unbeautiful to look upon, but pious, wise, silent,