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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. VII. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER III
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171-210.

There are ten thick and thin half-volumes, and perhaps more.

One of the most hideous imbroglios ever published under the name of Book,--without vestige of Index, and on paper that has no margin and cannot stand ink,--yet with many curious articles stuffed blindly into the awful belly of it, like jewels into a rag-sack, or into TEN rag-sacks all in one; with far more authenticity than you could expect in such case.

Let us call it, for brevity, _Helden-Geschichte,_ in future references.] to omit the Hotham Despatches, we obtained the following shovelful of authentic particulars, perhaps not quite insupportable to existing mankind.
The exact size of the Camp of Radewitz I nowhere find measured; but to judge on the map, [At p.

214.] it must have covered, with its appendages, some ten or twelve square miles of ground.


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