[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ vi.

147.] From Konigsgratz, northward, by Konigshof, by Arnau, up to Hohenelbe, all heights are crowned, all passes bristling with cannon.

Rivers Aupa, Elbe beset with redoubts, with dams in favorable places, and are become inundations, difficult to tap.

There are "ditches 8 feet deep by 16 broad." Behind or on the right bank of Elbe, it is mere intrenchment for five-and-twenty miles.

With bogs, with thickets full of Croats; and such an amount of artillery,--I believe they have in battery no fewer than 1,500 cannon.