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Middle-Mark.] GERMANY. 66i
3. Into the little country of Bellin, a great part of which belonged to
the atprefent extind: family ofthat name. In this county lies
Fchrbellin, a fmall town, feated on the Mnn, over which is a paffage at
this place. This town is properly called Belli?:, and was the originaf feat
of the family of that name, but from the ferry, which formerly wafted
paflengers here over the Rhin, it has been called FehrhelUn. In the year
16 16 inflead of this ferry a bridge was eredted here. At this place alfo is
a royal prefedurate-othce, together with a fpiritual infpeftion. In 1675
the Elector Frederick William with 6000 horfe only defeated 13,000
Swedes at this place, who were under theconduft of General ^/-^7//^c/; Together
widi nine villages, which are partly royal, and partly noble.
4. Into the little country of Friefack, in which is
Friefack, a fmall town, under the jurifdidion of the Lords of Bredo,
who have one of their three original feats at this place. In the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries Friefack was a flrong free-booting citadel, poflelled
by the family of ^litzau.
Together with fix villages, which almofl: all of them belong to the family
of Bredau.
5. Into the little country of Rbim, in which is
Rhino, a fmall town, taking its name from the river Rhin, and (landing
under the jurifdiftion of the Lords of Haagen
Together with eleven villages, belonging to the fame noble family.
6. Into the prefedturate of KoNiGSHORST, which was formerly a moraffy
and unpafllible wood fituated between Fehrbellin and Nauen. This
wood was five German miles in length, and between one and one and a
half broad. King Frederick William, httwttn. the years 1719 and 1738,
under the infpedion of the fupreme ranger, the Baron of Hartefeld, affifted
by the fkilful archited, war and domain counfellor ^/o/^t«, caufed it
tobe rendered capable of improvement; that is to fay, feveral ditches were
made here, eighteen perches in breadth, the water carried off, and trees
and flirubs grubbed up, on which occafion great quantities of amber, and
at a depth of fourteen feet whole trees of oak were found. To the great
expence, which this undertaking produced, the pofi"efibrs of the feveral
meadows adjoining thereto, were all, without diftindion, obliged to contribute
fomewhat. Upon that this trad of land was converted into a royal
prefedurate called KonigCoorfl. It confifts moflly of low lands, and
a little agriculture, which is produdive of rye, barley, oats, and buckwheat,
but principally yields excellent pafturage and breeds of cattle, and
fince the year 1752 has alfo had a flud of the fineft outlandifli horles. The
fix manors here of the höbe of Sund, the Nordhof, the Teutfchof, the Ktdjhorß,
the Kienberg, and the Hartefeld zvq filled with the fineft Holland,
Eali-Friefeland,
Hol/lein, Lithuanian, and Pomeranian cows, and the management
of them given to Dutch fart«ers. We meet in this trad with milk, butter,
and