534 Mr. Wardrop’s case of a lady born blind , who 
house in which she lodged, and observed that she was tall. 
She asked what the colour of her gown was ? to which she 
was answered, that it was blue : “ so is that thing on your 
head,” she then observed; which was the case: “ and your 
handkerchief, that is a different colour ;” which was also 
correct. She added, “ I see you pretty well, I think.” The 
teacups and saucers underwent an examination : “ what are 
they like?” her brother asked her. “I don’t know,” she 
replied ; “ they look very queer to me ; but I can tell what 
they are in a minute when I touch them.” She distinguished 
an orange on the chimney-piece, but could form no notion 
of what it was till she touched it. She seemed now to have 
become more cheerful, and entertained greater expectation 
of comfort from her admission into the visible world ; and 
she was very sanguine that she would find her newly ac- 
quired faculty of more use to her when she returned home, 
where every thing was familiar to her. 
On the eighth day, she asked her brother, when at dinner, 
“ what he was helping himself to?” and when she was told 
it was a glass of port wine, she replied, “ port wine is dark, 
and looks to me very ugly.” She observed, when candles 
were brought into the room, her brother’s face in the mirror, 
as well as that of a lady who was present ; she also walked, 
for the first time without assistance, from her chair to a sopha 
which was on the opposite side of the room, and back again 
to the chair. When at tea, she took notice of the tray, ob- 
served the shining of the japan work, and asked “ what the 
colour was round the edge?” she was told that it was yellow; 
upon which she remarked, “ I will know that again.” 
On the ninth day she came down stairs to breakfast in 
