Kissam seems to be, about day
and date and precise location. Besides, if Mr. Kissam actually did
come upon the discovery he says he did, at the period designated-
nearly eight years ago- how happens it that he took no steps, on the
instant, to reap the immense benefits which the merest bumpkin must
have known would have resulted to him individually, if not to the
world at large, from the discovery? It seems to me quite incredible
that any man of common understanding could have discovered what Mr.
Kissam says he did, and yet have subsequently acted so like a baby- so
like an owl- as Mr. Kissam admits that he did. By-the-way, who is
Mr. Kissam? and is not the whole paragraph in the 'Courier and
Enquirer' a fabrication got up to 'make a talk'? It must be
confessed that it has an amazingly moon-hoaxy-air. Very little
dependence is to be placed upon it, in my humble opinion; and if I
were not well aware, from experience, how very easily men of science
are mystified, on points out of their usual range of inquiry, I should
be profoundly astonished at finding so eminent a chemist as
Professor Draper, discussing Mr.
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