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In Dresden, and the patch of hill-country to the southeastward of it by Elbe side, which is instep or glacis of the Pirna rock-country, seventy square miles or so, there rules Daun; and this with its heights of Gahmig, valuable as a defence for Dresden against Austria, but not otherwise of considerable value was all that Daun this year, or pretty much in any coming year, could realize of conquest in Saxony.
For four days more, he hung about the place, minatory, hesitative; but attempted nothing feasible; and on the fifth day, "for a certain weighty reason," as the Austrian Gazettes express it, he saw good to vanish into the Pirna Rock-Country, and be out of harm's way in the mean while!
At Wilsdruf, Friedrich first learns for certain, that the Saxon Army, with King, with Bruhl and other chief personages, are withdrawn to Pirna, to the inexpugnable Konigstein and Rock-Country.
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