jects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular.
He knew not the shape of anything nor any one thing from
another, however different in shape or magnitude; but upon being
told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling,
he would carefully observe, that he might know them again. But,
having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of
them, and (as he said) at first he learned to know and again
forgot a thousand things in a day. Having often forgot which was
the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask; but catching
the cat (which he knew by feeling), he was observed to look at
her steadfastly, and then, setting her down, said, 'So, puss, I
shall know you another time.' He was very much surprised that
those things which he had liked best did not appear most
agreeable to his eyes, expecting those persons would appear most
beautiful that he loved most, and such things to be most
agreeable to his sight that were so to his taste. We thought he
soon knew what pictures represented which were showed to him,
but we found afterward we were mistaken, for about two months
after he was couched he discovered at once they represented
solid bodies, when to that time he considered them only as
party-colored planes or surfaces diversified with variety of
paint; but even then he was no less surprised, expecting the
pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was
amazed when he found those parts, which by their light and
shadow appeared now round and uneven, felt only flat like the
rest, and asked which was the lying sense, feeling or seeing?

"Being shown his father's picture in a locket at his mother's
watch and told what it was, he acknowledged a likeness, but was
vastly surprised, asking how it could be that a large face could
be expressed in so little room.

"At first he could bear but very little sight, and the things he
saw he thought extremely large; but, upon seeing things larger,
those first seen he conceived less, never being able to imagine
any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in he said
he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive
that the whole house could look bigger. Before he was couched he
expected little advantage from seeing, except reading and
writing. Blindness, he observed, had this advan