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after he was couch’d, the faint ideas he had of them be- 
fore, were not fufhcient for him to know them by after- 
wards and therefore he did not think them the fame, 
which he had before known by thofe Names. Now Scar- 
let he thought the mod beautiful of all Colours, and of 
others the mod gay were the mod pleafing, whereas the 
drd'fimehe faw Black, it gave him great Uneafinefs, yet 
after a little Time he was reconcil’d to it ^ but fome 
Months after, feeing by Accident a Negroe Woman, he 
was druck with great Horror at the Sight. 
When he fird faw, he was fo far from making any 
Judgment about Didances, that he thought all Obje&s 
whatever touch’d his Eyes, (as he exprefs’d it) as what 
he felt, did his Skin:, and thought no Objeds fo agree- 
able as thofe which were fmooth and regular, tho’ he 
could form no Judgment of their Shape, or guefs what 
it was in any Object that was pleafing to him : He 
knew not the Shape of any Thing, nor any one Thing 
from another, however different in Shape, or Magni- 
tude ; but upon being told what Things were, whofe 
Form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully 
obferve, that he might know them again; but having 
too many Objeds to learn at once, he forgot many of 
them ; and (as he faid) at hrd he learn’d to know, and 
again forgot a thoufand Things in a Day. One 
Particular only (tho’ it may appear trifling) I will 
relate ; Having often forgot which was the Cat, and 
which the Dog, he was afham’d to afk but catching the 
Cat (which he knew by feeling) he was obferv’d to look 
at her dedfadly, and then fetting her down, faid, So 
Pufs ! I fhall know you another Time. He was ve- 
ry much lurpriz’d, that thofe Things which he had lik’d 
