"Pious" his contemporaries called this George;--he was son of the ERBVERBRUDERUNG Duke, who is so important to us; he was grandfather's grandfather of the last Duke of all; after whom it was we that should have got these fine Territories; they should all have fallen to the Great Elector, had not the Austrian strong hand provided otherwise.

George did these plantations, recoveries to the plough; made this perennial whinstone road across the swamps; upon which, notable to the roughest Prussian (being "twelve feet high by eight feet square"), rises a Hewn Mass with this Inscription on it,--not of the name or date of George; but of a thought of his, which is not without a pious beauty to me:--_Straverunt alii nobis, nos Posteritati; Omnibus at Christus stravit ad asra viam._ Others have made roads for us; we make them for still others: Christ made a road to the stars for us all.

[Zollner, _Briefe uber Schlesien,_ i.

175; Hubner, i.t.

101.] I know not how many Brandenburgers of General Kleist's Detachment, or whether any, read this Stone; but they do all rustle past it there, claiming the Heritage of this Pious George; and their mute dim interview with him, in this manner, is a thing slightly more memorable than orders of the day, at this date.
It was on the 11th, two days after Ohlau, that General Kleist summoned Brieg; and Brieg answered resolutely, No.