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He experienced no difficulty with any of the brighter varie- 

 ties of Yellow. From a number of pieces of different coloured 

 cloth, he immediately selected a specimen of this colour ; and a 

 fragment of high-coloured sulphur he thought a beautiful ex- 

 ample of the same. Gallstone-yellow he conceived to be orange. 

 Wax-yellow (13.), which, in the Vegetable Kingdom, exists in the 

 greenish parts of the nonpareil apple, he supposed might be a 

 green. His ideas of yellow were, however, on the whole very 

 correct. 



His notions of Orange were very imperfect. The common 

 marigold, he called Yellow ; and a sample of fine orpiment, 

 Orange ; and likewise equally choice specimens of reddish and 

 deep reddish orange he termed Brown. 



Of the Reds, he considered carmine, lake, and crimson to be 

 blues; the latter, indeed, a dark-blue, agreeing with the in- 

 stance of the coat before alluded to. When a great snapdra- 

 gon was placed before him, he called the margin of its upper lip, 

 which was purplish-red, a dark colour, and thought it a very 

 good match for my black coat. The part also near the throat 

 of the corolla, and which was of a light bluish-red, he called 

 light sky-blue. The yellow palate he distinguished perfectly ; 

 but as that colour gradually lost itself in the purplish-red, he 

 gave it the name of black. He remarked, that, when a boy, the 

 ruddy cheeks and arms of the milk-maidens, always appeared to 

 him of a bluish tone ; and, on being shown a rosy child, he per- 

 sisted in the same remark. The carnation, pink, and the cock's- 

 comb presented also the same appearance. Scarlet-red he dis- 

 tinguished readily by its proper name. Veinous blood * he as- 

 similated to brown or black ; and the brown disk of the common 



* Mr DALTON, in. vol. v. p. 33. of the Manchester Transactions, remarks, that, 

 in his own case, blood appears not unlike bottle-green ; and, it is worthy of notice, 

 that, in the present case, it was termed, " not a black, but nearly so." 



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