26 Mr Wardrop's case of a Lady Born Bli?id 9 who 



gave a decided preference to some colours, liking yellow most, 

 and then pale pink. It may be here mentioned, that when 

 desirous of examining an object, she had considerable diffi- 

 culty in directing her eye to it, and finding out its position, 

 moving her hand as well as her eye in various directions, as 

 a person when blind-folded, or in the dark, gropes with his 

 hands for what he wishes to touch. She also distinguished a 

 large from a small object, when they were both held up be- 

 fore her for comparison. She said she saw different forms in 

 various objects which were shown to her. On asking what 

 she meant by different forms, such as long, round and square, 

 and desiring her to draw with her finger these forms on her 

 other hand, and then presenting to her eye the respective 

 forms, she pointed to them exactly : she not only distinguish- 

 ed small from large objects, but knew what was meant by 

 above and below ; to prove which, a figure drawn with ink 

 was placed before her eye, having one end broad, and the 

 other narrow, and she saw the positions as they really were, 

 and not inverted. She could also perceive motions ; for when 

 a glass of water was placed on the table before her, on ap- 

 proaching her hand near it, it was moved quickly to a greater 

 distance, upon which she immediately said, " You move it ; 

 you take it away." 



She seemed to have the greatest difficulty in finding out the 

 distance of any object ; for when an object was held close to 

 her eye, she would search for it by stretching her hand far 

 beyond its position, while on other occasions she groped close 

 to her own face, for a thing far removed from her. 



She learned with facility the names of the different colours, 

 and two days after the coloured papers had been shown to 

 her, on coming into a room the colour of which was crimson, 

 she observed that it was red. She also observed some pic- 

 tures hanging on the red wall of the room in which she was 

 sitting, distinguishing several small figures in them, but not 

 knowing what they represented, and admiring the gilt frames. 

 On the same day, she walked round the pond in the centre of 

 St James's Square, and was pleased with the glistening of the 

 sun's rays on the water, as well as with the blue sky and green 

 shrubs, the colours of which she named correctly. 



