His Excellency from hence designed the straight road, by the way of _Framstein_, _Friburg_ (where are silver mines, and the tombs of the electors of Saxony) _Waltheim_, _Coldick_, _Walcowitz_, and so to _Leipsick_. In the mean time he permitted me to quit his retinue, in order to see _Dresden_. With this intent I take a post waggon from _Deplitz_ to _Peterswaldt_, the distance of two miles, in which I pass the hill of _Kaiasberg_. From _Peterswaldt_ I take a new post, and soon after I have left the town pass the boundary of _Bohemia_ and _Saxony_; and at two miles end changing post at a little village not far from _Pirn_, by this third post I come under its walls, and presently am upon the banks of the _Elbe_, along which I ride about half an hour, and then quitting the river arrive about five a clock at _Dresden_, being in all six miles from _Deplitz_. It being now dark, I repair immediately to my lodgings at the house of one _Leonard Serert_, betwixt the two market places, a civil host, who spoke both French and Italian. The way from _Peterswaldt_ to _Dresden_ is very agreable, being interspersed with woods of fir. The villages are better built, and more populous, than those of _Bohemia_; where indeed neither towns nor villages are thin, but the people very few, and those dejected with a sense of poverty and slavery, occasioned partly by the tyranny of the church, and partly by the constitution of the government, which makes the peasants slaves to their Lords, as in _Moravia_. December i.