His intentions towards Pirna Country are fixed and sure; but the plan or route he will take is unknown to everybody, and indeed to Browne himself, till he see near at hand and consider.

Browne's problem, he himself knows, is abundantly abstruse,--bordering on the impossible; but he will try his best.

To get within reach of the Saxons is almost impossible to Browne, even were there no Keith there.

As good as impossible altogether, by any line of march, while Keith is afoot in those parts.

By Aussig, down the River, straight for the interior of their Camp, it is flatly impossible: by the south or southeast corner of their Camp (Gottleube way), or by the northeast (by Schandau way, right bank of Elbe), it is virtually so,--at least without beating Keith.
Could one beat Keith indeed;--but that will not be easy! And that, unluckily, is the preliminary to everything.
"By the Hellendorf-Hennersdorf side, in the wastes where Gottleube Brook gathers itself, Browne might have a chance.