received Sight by the formation of an artificial Pupil. 27 



It may be here observed, that she had yet acquired by the 

 use of her sight but very little knowledge of any forms, and 

 was unable to apply the information gained by this new sense, 

 and to compare it with what she had been accustomed to ac- 

 quire by her sense of touch. When, therefore, the experi- 

 ment was made of giving her a silver pencil case and a large 

 key to examine with her hands ; she discriminated and knew 

 each distinctly ; but when they were placed on the table, side 

 by side, though she distinguished each with her eye, yet she 

 could not tell which was the pencil case and which was the 

 key. 



Nothing farther occurred in the history of this lady's case 

 worthy of notice till the twenty-fifth day after the operation. 

 On that day she drove in a carriage for an hour in the Regent's 

 Park, and on her way there seemed more amused than usual, 

 and asked more questions about the objects surrounding her, 

 such as " What is that ?" it is a soldier, she was answered ; 

 tc and that, see ! see !" these were candles of various colours 

 at a tallow chandler's window. * Who is that, that has passed 

 us just now?" it was a person on horseback : " but what is 

 that on the pavement, red ?" it was some ladies who wore red 

 shawls. On going into the Park, she was asked what she 

 saw particularly, or if she could guess what any of the objects 

 were. u Oh yes," she replied, " there is the sky, that is the 

 grass ; yonder is water, and two white things ;" which were 

 two swans. On coming home along Piccadilly, the jewellers' 

 shops seemed to surprise her much, and her expressions made 

 those around her laugh heartily. 



From this period till the time of her leaving London on the 

 31st of March, being forty-two days after the operation, she 

 continued almost daily to gain more information of the visible 

 world, but she had yet much to learn. She had acquired a 

 pretty accurate notion of colours and their different shades and 

 names ; and when she came to pay me a farewell visit, she 

 then wore a gown, the first of her own choice, with the light 

 purple colour of which she seemed highly gratified, as well as 

 with her cap, which was ornamented with red ribbons. She 

 had not yet acquired any thing like an accurate knowledge of 

 distance or of forms, and up to this period she continued to 



