388 Mr. Ware’s Case of a young Gentleman , 
one of them had on his head. On the same evening, I placed 
him before a looking glass, and held up his hand : after a little 
time he smiled, and said he saw the shadow of his hand, as well 
as that of his head. He could not then distinguish his features ; 
but, on the following day, his mother having again placed him 
before the glass, he pointed to his eyes, nose, and mouth, and 
seemed much gratified with the sight. 
Having thus stated the principal observations that were made 
by Master W. I shall now make a brief comparison between 
this statement, and that which is given in the XXXVth Volume 
of the Philosophical Transactions, of Mr. Cheselden’s patient, 
who was supposed to be born blind, and obtained his sight when 
he was between thirteen and fourteen years old. 
It should be observed, that though Master W. was six years 
younger than Mr, Cheselden’s patient, he was remarkably 
intelligent, and gave the most direct and satisfactory answers 
to every question that was put to him. Both of them, also, if 
not born blind, lost their sight so very early, that, as Mr. Che- 
selden expresses it, “ they had not any recollection of having 
“ ever seen.” 
My first remark is, that, contrary to the experience of Mr. 
Cheselden’s patient, who is stated “ to have been so far from 
“ making any judgment of distance, that he thought all objects 
“ touched his eyes, as what he felt did his skin,” Master W. 
distinguished, as soon as he was able to see, a table, a yard and 
a half from him; and proved that he had some accuracy in his 
idea of distance, by saying, that it was a little further off than 
his hand could reach. This observation, so contrary to the ac- 
count we have received of Mr. Cheselden’s patient, would have 
surprised me much more than it did, if I had not previously, in 
