brandel wins a quarter of a million dollars which is in a store near amount of money, about a tenth of the value of the sea and the canal, and he builds a mansion overlooking the canal which is eventually build exactly on the lines that he has suggested and that wright had claimed was wrong. and goes down every morning to collect tolls. [laughter] which is how he collected his quarter million dollars because the canal company was not -- didn't believe pay off the judgment against him. and in any case, there are other aspects of the book that i think our new material which i don't think we really have time to go into your. you have a very long competition between new york and virginia about which state will get west first. and it has been talked about in other erie books but i should stress in this one that for decades in washington, george washington and thomas jefferson who owned land in the ohio river valley speculators of land and desperately tried to find a way to get the potomac river to improve it and get it to to go over the mountains and on to the other side and then to to the