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From the natural seat of the ear, to where it now oc- 

 cupies, below the shoulder, 9 inches. 



Where the eye-ball now forms a socket, 4 inches. 



The bag terminates in a point which will easily stretch 

 to 14 inches. The maxilla inferior is divided at the 

 chin, and the teeth are all inclined down the course of 

 the wen. For seven years, her master told me, the 

 passing down of the ear, and afterwards of the eye, 

 were perceptible ; that the pain, when the eyeball left 

 the socket, was insufferable ; but that, in its progress to 

 its now situation, she complained but little. 



But, Sir, what astonished me most was, the ball was 

 not increased, nor was vision impaired ; the lids retained 

 their power of winking, nor did her eye now give pain. 



She could clearly hear a whisper. The e^cternal parts 

 of the ear were very much enlarged, and presented more 

 the association of the labia pudendi, &e., than the parts 

 of the ear. This immense sack was suspended by six 

 or eight cords as large as the umbilical, and which pre- 

 sented exactly the same sensations on feeling them. The 

 pulsations were evident. I could discover but one 

 artery. 



Will not this case throw some light on nervous sen- 

 sibility, or irritability? Does it not declare, that the 

 expansive power of the nerves is far greater than was 

 ever known ? That so exquisitely delicate an organ as 

 the optic nerve should be elongated to 4 inches from the 



