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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. X. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER III
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-- CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL.
Thursday, 25th October, 1736, the Crown-Prince, with Lieutenant Buddenbrock and an attendant or two, drove over into Mecklenburg, to a Village and serene Schloss called Mirow, intending a small act of neighborly civility there; on which perhaps an English reader of our time will consent to accompany him.

It is but some ten or twelve miles off, in a northerly direction; Reinsberg being close on the frontier there.

A pleasant enough morning's-drive, with the October sun shining on the silent heaths, on the many-colored woods and you.
Mirow is an Apanage for one of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz junior branches: Mecklenburg-Strelitz being itself a junior compared to the Mecklenburg-Schwerin of which, and its infatuated Duke, we have heard so much in times past.

Mirow and even Strelitz are not in--a very shining state,--but indeed, we shall see them, as it were, with eyes.


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