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of the Mississippi. McGee calls him " Brazier " a stroke of wit in which 

 McGee felt such pricle as to repeat it eight times. That it was pure wit, 

 and not accident, appears by the context, including the correct name. 



Who is Mr. McGee ? 



How did he come to be in a leading position on the U. S. Survey ? 



Making such inexcusable blunders and with such an enormous personal 

 equation, is he the best man to fill up the reports of the geological survey? 



Is it any part of his business to use the weight of his position — in the 

 service and pay of this great nation — in branding high minded, learned, and 

 eminent Christian gentlemen as thieves, robbers, poisoners, commercial 

 swindlers, falsifiers, shysters, betinseled charlatans and harpies? 



When Professor Wright had given years to glacial geology and was 

 becoming eminent as a gentleman of modest and accurate learning, Mr. 

 McGee was a land surveyor. 



How did he get into the U. S. Geological Survey ? Was it a clerical 

 blunder taking him to the wrong survey ? If he was in the land office in 

 a subordinate position with some fat man over him who could sit on him 

 occasionally (or perhaps often), he might be useful and possibly vastly 

 safer and cheaper to the American people. 



C. C. BALDWIN. 



