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XIV. An Account of Perfons who could not dijlinguijh Co- 
lours. By Mr. Jofeph Huddart, in a Letter to the Rev. 
Jofeph Prieftley, LL.D. F . R. S. 
SIR, 
Read Feb 
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London, 
Jan. 15, 1777. 
?eb. i3,"f T J HEN I had the pleafure of waiting on 
* * you laft winter, I had hopes before now 
of giving you a more perfect account of the peculiarity 
of vifion which I then mentioned to you, in a perfon of 
my acquaintance in the North: however, if I give you 
now the belt I am able, I perfuade myfelf you will par- 
don the delay. 
I promifed to procure you a written account from the 
perfon himfelf, but this I was unfortunately difappointed 
in, by his dying fuddenly of a pleurify a fhort time 
after my return to the country. 
You will recollect I told you that this perfon lived at 
Mary-port in Cumberland, near which place, viz. at Al- 
lonby,I myfelf live, and having known him about ten years 
have had frequent opportunities of converting with him.. 
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