ive, drains a
slightly hollowed Tract; too shallow to be called valley,--of several
miles in width, of several yards in depth;--Tract with wood here and
there on it, and signs of grass and culture, welcome after what you
have passed. On the foreground close to you is the Hamlet of
Konigs-Wusterhausen, with tolerable Lime-tree Avenue leading to it, and
the air of something sylvan from your Hill-top. Konigs-Wusterhausen
was once WENDISH-Westerhausen, and not far off is DEUTSCH-Wusterhausen,
famed, I suppose, by faction-fights in the Vandalic times: both of
them are now KING'S-Wusterhausen (since the King came thither), to
distinguish them from other Wusterhausens that there are.

Descending, advancing through your Lime-tree Avenue, you come upon the
backs of office-houses, out-houses, stables or the like,--on your left
hand I have guessed,--extending along the Highway. And in the middle
of these you come at last to a kind of Gate or vaulted passage (ART VON
THOR, says Zollner), where, if you have liberty, you face to the left,
and enter. Here, once through into the free light again, you are in a
Court: four-square space, not without prospect; right side and left
side are lodgings for his Majesty's gentlemen; behind you, well in their
view, are stables and kitchens: in the centre of the place is a Fountain
"with hewn steps and iron railings;" where his simple Majesty has been
known to sit and smoke, on summer evenings. The fourth side of your
square, again, is a palisade; beyond which, over bridge and moat
and intervening apparatus, you perceive, on its trim terraces, the
respectable old Schloss itself. A rectangular mass, not of vast
proportions, with tower in the centre of it (tower for screw-stair, the
general roadway of the House); and looking though weather-beaten
yet weather-tight, and as dignified as it can. This is Wusterhausen;
Friedrich Wilhelm's Hunting-seat from of old.

A dreadfully crowded place, says Wilhelmina, where you are stuffed into
garrets, and have not room to turn. The terraces are of some magnitude,
trimmed all round with a row of little clipped trees, one big lime-tree
at each corner;--under one of these big lime-trees, aided by an awning:
it is his Majesty's delight to spread his frugal but substantial dinner,
four-and-twenty covers, at the stroke of 12, and so dine SUB DIO. If
rain come on, says Wilhelmina, you are wet to mid-leg, the ground being
hollow in that place,--and indeed in all weathe