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iioned that there is a pupil in the Hartford Asylum, 

 who is entirely deaf, dumb, and blind, and her touch 

 and smell are so exceedingly heightened, especially 

 the latter, that it seems to have acquired the proper- 

 ties of a new sense, and to transcend even the sagacity 

 of a spaniel. At her first reception into the Asylum, 

 she immediately busied herself in quietly exploring 

 the size of the apartments, and the height of the 

 stair cases ; she even knelt and smelled fo the 

 thresholds ; and, now, as if by the union of a myste- 

 rious geometry with a powerful memory, never makes 

 a false step upon a flight of stairs or enters a wrong 

 door, or mistakes her seat at the table. Her simple 

 wardrobe is systematically arranged, and it is impos- 

 sible to displace a single article in her drawers without 

 her perceiving and restoring it. She executes the 

 most beautiful work; she gathers the first flowers 

 with a delight bordering on transport. Without ever 

 having been sick herself, she so readily comprehends 

 the efficacy and benevolence of the medical profession, 

 that she has been known, upon a physician placing her 

 finger upon her pulse — to lead him immediately to 

 the chamber of one of the pupils whose absence by. 

 sickness she had mysteriously detected. She distin- 

 guishes the return of the Sabbath — and appears sa- 

 credly to observe it, as those intimately acquainted 

 with her habits assert.* 



T. And all this merely by the aid of two senses, 

 the touch and the smell! What a comment upon the 



* Mrs. Sigourney's very interesting account in the Juvenile 

 Miscellany. 



