"An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and impediments which had to be encountered and surmounted, in an almost unexplored and uninhabited wilderness . . . evinced on your part a moral courage and an undaunted spirit and combination of science and management equally exciting our admiration and deserving our praise."

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Source: Interview with John Byrne: Editor and Founder of Rawstory.com. Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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