received sight by the formation of an artificial pupil. 539 
usual, and asked more questions about the objects surround- 
ing her, such as “ What is that?” it is a soldier, she was 
answered ; “ and that, see ! see !” these were candles of va- 
rious colours at a tallow chandler’s window. " Who is that, 
that has passed us just now ?” it was a person on horseback : 
“ but what is that on the pavement, red ?” it was some ladies 
who wore red shawls. On going into the Park, she was asked 
what she saw particularly, or if she could guess what any of 
the objects were. “ Oh yes,” she replied, “ there is the sky, 
that is the grass ; yonder is water, and two white things 
which were two swans. On coming home along Piccadilly, 
the jewellers’ shops seemed to surprise her much, and her 
expressions made those around her laugh heartily. 
From this period till the time of her leaving London on the 
31st of March, being forty-two days after the operation, she 
continued almost daily to gain more information of the visible 
world, but she had yet much to learn. She had acquired a 
pretty accurate notion of colours and their different shades and 
names ; and when she came to pay me a farewell visit, she 
then wore a gown, the first of her own choice, with the light 
purple colour of which she seemed highly gratified, as well as 
with her cap, which was ornamented with red ribbons. She 
had not yet acquired any thing like an accurate knowledge of 
distance or of forms, and up to this period she continued to 
be very much confused with every object at which she looked. 
Neither was she yet able, without considerable difficulty and 
numerous fruitless trials, to direct her eye to an object; so 
that when she attempted to look at any thing, she turned her 
head in various directions, until her eye caught the object of 
which it was in search. She still entertained however the 
