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and which the clog, he was ashamed to ask, but catch- 

 ing the cat, (which he knew by feeling) he looked at 

 her stedfastly and said, u Sopuss,! shall know you ano- 

 ther time." He was surprised that the things or per- 

 sons he liked best, did not appear most agreeable to 

 his sight, expecting that what was most pleasing to 

 his other senses, would be so to his sight also. 



" We thought he soon knew the nature of pictures, 

 but found afterwards we were mistaken ; for it was 

 two months after the operation, before he discovered 

 that they represented solid bodies. Even then he was 

 no le$s surprised, expecting they would feel like ths 

 things they represented. He was amazed, that those 

 parts, which by their light and shade appeared round 

 and uneven, should feel like the rest, tind asked which 

 was the lying sense feeling or seeing? Being shewn 

 his father's picture drawn in miniature, and told, what 

 it was, he acknowledged the likeness ; but asked,how 

 it could be, that so large a face should be contained 

 in so little room? Saying, it would have seemed as 

 impossible to him, as to put a bushel of any thing 

 into a pint. But even blindness, he observed, had this 

 advantage, that he could go any where in the dark> 

 better than those that could see. And after he was 

 couched, he did not lose it, but could go all about 

 the house without a light. Every new object gave 

 him new delight, such as he wanted words to express. 

 He was particularly delighted, when he first saw a 

 large prospect, and called it a new kind of see. 

 ing. Being afterwards couched in his other eye, he said 

 that objects appeared larger to this eye, though 

 not so large as they did to the other, when it was 

 newly couched. But looking on them with both 

 eyes, they seemed twice as large, as if he looked with 

 that only." 



27. I would beg leave to propose a few queries 

 here to which I have not found a satisfactory answer. 



1. Why do we see things false with one eye? Par* 

 tjcuiarJy with regard to their situation. 



