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beft, did not appear in oft agreeable to his Eyes, ex* 
peding thofe Perfons would appear moft beautiful that 
he lov’d molt, and fuch Things to be molt agreeable to his 
Sight that were fo to his Tafte. We thought he foon 
knew what Pictures reprefented, which were fhew’d to 
him, but we found afterwards we were miftakenj for 
about two Months after he was couch’d, he difcovered 
at once, they reprefented folid Bodies } when to that 
Time he conlider’d them only as Party-colour’d Planes, 
or Surfaces diverfified with Variety of Paint j but e- 
ven then he was nolefs furpriz’d, expeding the Pictures 
would feel like the Things they reprefented, and was 
amaz’d when he found thofe Parts, which by their 
Light and Shadow appear’d now round and uneven, felt 
only flat like the reft ^ and afk’d which was the lying 
Senfe, Feeling, or Seeing? 
Being fhewn his Father’s Pidure in a Locket at his 
Mother’s Watch, and told what it was, he acknowledg- 
ed a Likenefs, but was vaftly furpriz’d } afking, how 
it could be, that a large Face could be exprefs’d in fo 
little Room, faying, It fhould have feem’d as impoffible 
to him, as to put a Bulhel of any thing into a Pint, 
At firft, he could bear but very little Sight, and the 
Things he faw, he thought extreamly large j but upon 
feeing Things larger, thofe firft feen he conceiv’d lefs, ne- 
ver being able to imagine any Lines beyond the Bounds he 
faw ; the Room he was in hefaid, he knew to be but Part 
of the Houfe, yet he could not conceive that the whole 
Houfe could look bigger. Before he was couch’d, he 
expeded little Advantage from Seeing, worth under- 
going an Operation for, except reading and writing; 
for he faid, He thought he could have no more Plea- 
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