None of them was familiar with the question, or knew at all what it was all about.

I then stated to them the difficulty, giving them the names of the cases and the volumes where they were found.

They were all quite astonished to find a man from the country, of whom probably none of them had ever heard before, having the law of Admiralty at his tongue's end.
If the question had related to anything in the Digest under Adr, or anything thereafter, I should have been found probably more ignorant than they were.

But Judge Poland took me into high favor, and I found his friendship exceedingly agreeable and valuable.

I do not remember that the Committee on the Revision of the Laws had another meeting while I belonged to it.
I was also, as I have said, put on the Committee of Education and Labor.