22-48.] The latter is our main Document here:-- I know not how much of the blame was General Rutowski's: one could surmise some laxity of effort, and a rather slovenly-survey of facts, in that quarter.

The Enterprise, from the first, was flatly impossible, say judges; and it is certain, poor Rutowski's execution was not first-rate.
"How get across the Elbe ?" Rutowski had said to himself, perhaps not quite with the due rigor of candor proportionate to the rigorous fact: "How get across the Elbe?
We have copper pontoons at Pirna; but they will be difficult to cart.

Or we might have a boat-bridge; boats planked together two and two.

At Pirna are plenty of boats; and by oar and track-rope, the River itself might be a road for them?
Boats or pontoons to Konigstein, by water or land, they must be got.

Eight miles of abysmal roads, our horses all extenuated?
Impossible to cart these pontoons!" said Rutowski to himself .-- Pity he had not tried it.