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of flour and saw-mills. Here the place seems to vibratewith tlie throbbing of tlic water-wheels at work betweentbe piers below, and tlio clatter of thc macbinery above;whilst there is a kind of mixed smell of new bread andturpentine from tlie sacks of flour and sawdust hard by.Before the mill-doors, too, stand wagons with sides likeplate-racks, and with tlie unyoked oxen feeding in front ofthem, as they wait for their load. Here dusty-haired miliersare seen lolling out of the Square window-holes, and the path-way is littered with huge trunks of trees, sliced three partsdown into planks, and looking like immense fans, or logsdivided into so many leaves.

Then, as tlie one wagon crawls by, you can feel thevery piles and joists of the bridge totter again; and on yourreturn the wind blows smartly down the long covered way,as if it were some ventilating shaft to the town.

§2.

Of tue Moeai Creed of the Prüssians — Duelling — Senseof Fair Play — Wellington and Blücher — English andForeign Judges — -Deficient Gentlejianly Feelikg —Treatment of Poor and Seryants.

That the Prussian people are not remarkable as a body fortheir wisdom — even though there be a greater amount ofschool-learning in the kingdom than in any other EuropeanState ■—none who have read the preceding articles can for amonient doubt. But if clear-headedness be not their forte, theyare, perhaps, good-hearted, and are kindly and charitable toone another; and, moreover, impressed with so high a sense of