cing their light troops in the roads with proper supports, have
rendered it extremely difficult, if not impracticable.'"

Daun very early got to know of Friedrich's departure, and whitherward;
which was extremely interesting to Daun: "Aims to be in Silesia before
me; will cut out Loudon from his fine prospects on Glatz?"--and had
instantly reinforced, perhaps to 20,000, Lacy's Division; and ordered
Lacy, who is the nearest to Friedrich's March, to start instantly on the
skirts of said March, and endeavor diligently to trample on the same.
For the purpose of harassing said March, Lacy is to do whatever he with
safety can (which we see is not much: "a few Uhlans and Hussars"); at
lowest, is to keep it constantly in sight; and always encamp as near it
as he dare; [Tempelhof, iv. 54.]--Daun himself girding up his loins; and
preparing, by a short-cut, to get ahead of it in a day or two. Lacy
was alert enough, but could not do much with safety: a few Uhlans and
Hussars, that was all; and he is now encamped somewhere to rearward, as
near as he dare.

THURSDAY, 3d JULY. "A rest-day; Army resting about Krakau, after such
a spell through the woody moors. The King, with small escort, rides out
reconnoitring, hither, thither, on the southern side or Lacy quarter: to
the top of the Keulenberg (BLUDGEON HILL), at last,--which is ten or a
dozen miles from Krakau and Quosdorf, but commands an extensive view.
Towns, village-belfries, courses of streams; a country of mossy woods
and wild agricultures, of bogs, of shaggy moor. Southward 10 miles is
Radeberg [not RadebUrg, observe]; yonder is the town of Pulsnitz on our
stream of Pulsnitz; to southeast, and twice as far, is Bischofswerda,
chasmy Stolpen (too well known to us before this): behind us,
Konigsbruck, Kamenz and the road from Grossenhayn to Bautzen: these and
many other places memorable to this King are discoverable from Bludgeon
Hill. But the discovery of discoveries to him is Lacy's Camp,--not very
far off, about a mile behind Pulsnitz; clearly visible, at Lichtenberg
yonder. Which we at once determine to attack; which, and the roads to
which, are the one object of interest just now,--nothing else visible,
as it were, on the top of the Keulenberg here, or as we ride homeward,
meditating it with a practical view. 'March at midnight,' that is the
practical result arrived at, on reaching home."

FRIDAY, JULY 4th. "Since the stroke of midnight we are all on march
again; nothing