so, essentially, using all of that data but relying very heavily on randel, eric sanderson was able to put together the project. i became fascinated by the idea that sanderson was walking around seeing 1609, seeing this wild island and that about 200 years earlier there had been this young man walking around what was then a much wilder island. not wild in wilderness sense, but rural. not at all gridded. and that he was only seeing lines and streets. and i thought that was just so amazing that across 200 years these people were walking the island with such an incredibly different vision. and i became really obsessed with john randel. and i started trying to find out as much as i could about him, and this -- the article ran, i think, in 2004. the book has just come out in 2013. you can get a sense of how long it took to track randel. and as you know, the main work that he is really famous for is the commissioner's plan. he made three copies of the plan, manuscript copies of the plan that was issued in 1811, and that's mostly what i found out about him initially. this is just to get at th