538 Mr. Wardrop's case of a lady born blind , who 
She seemed to have the greatest difficulty in finding out the 
distance of any object ; for when an object was held close to 
her eye, she would search for it by stretching her hand far 
beyond its position, while on other occasions she groped close 
to her own face, for a thing far removed from her. 
She learned with facility the names of the different colours, 
and two days after the coloured papers had been shown to 
her, on coming into a room the colour of which was crimson, 
she observed that it was red. She also observed some pictures 
hanging on the red wall of the room in which she was sitting, 
distinguishing several small figures in them, but not knowing 
what they represented, and admiring the gilt frames. On 
the same day, she walked round the pond in the centre of 
St. James's square, and was pleased with the glistening of the 
sun's rays on the water, as well as with the blue sky and 
green shrubs, the colours of which she named correctly. 
It may be here observed, that she had yet acquired by the 
use of her sight but very little knowledge of any forms, and 
was unable to apply the information gained by this new sense, 
and to compare it with what she had been accustomed to ac- 
quire by her sense of touch. When, therefore, the experiment 
w f as made of giving her a silver pencil case and a large key 
to examine with her hands ; she discriminated and knew each 
distinctly ; but when they were placed on the table, side by 
side, though she distinguished each with her eye, yet she 
could not tell which was the pencil case and which was 
the key. 
Nothing farther occurred in the history of this lady's case 
worthy of notice till the twenty-fifth day after the operation. 
On that day she drove in a carriage for an hour in the Regent's 
Park, and on her way there seemed more amused than 
