292 SENSE OF SIGHT. 



us?" In the course of the evening she requested her brother to show 

 her his watch, when she looked at it a considerable time, holding it 

 close to her eye. " She was asked what she saw, and she said there was 

 a dark and a bright side; she pointed to the hour of twelve and smiled. 

 Her brother asked her if she saw anything more; she replied yes, and 

 pointed to the hour of six, and to the hands of the watch. She then 

 looked at the chain and seals, and observed that one of the seals was 

 bright, which was the case, being a solid piece of rock crystal." On 

 the third day, she observed the doors on the opposite side of the street, 

 and asked if they were red. They were of an oak colour. In the 

 evening she looked at her brother's face, and said she saw his nose ; 

 he asked her to touch it, which she did: he then slipped a handker- 

 chief over his face, and asked her to look again, when she playfully 

 pulled it off, and asked, " What is that?" On the thirteenth day, she 

 walked out with her brother in the streets of London, distinctly dis- 

 tinguishing the street from the foot pavement, and stepping from one 

 to the other, like a person accustomed to the use of her eyes. 

 "Eighteen days after the last operation," says Dr. Wardrop, "I at- 

 tempted to ascertain, by a few experiments, her precise notions of the 

 colour, size, and forms, positions, motions, and distances of external 

 objects. As she could only see with one eye, nothing could be ascer- 

 tained respecting the question of double vision. She evidently saw 

 the difference of colours; that is, she received and was sensible of 

 different impressions from different colours. When pieces of paper, 

 one and a half inch square, differently coloured, were presented to 

 her, she not only distinguished them at once from one another, but 

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

 pale pink. It may be here mentioned, that, when desirous of examin- 

 ing an object, she had considerable difficulty 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 blindfolded or in the dark, 

 gropes with his hand for what he wishes to touch. She also distin- 

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

 before her for comparison. She said she saw different forms in va- 

 rious 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 those forms on her other hand, and then pre- 

 senting to her eye the respective forms, she pointed to them exactly; 

 she not only distinguished 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 nar- 

 row, and she saw the positions as they really were, and not invert- 

 ed [! !]. She could also perceive motions ; for when a glass of water 

 was placed on the table before her, on approaching her hand near it, 

 it was moved quickly to a greater distance, upon which she imme- 

 diately said, 4 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 remote from her." 



