resented to her, she not only
distinguished them at once from one another, but gave a decided
preference to some colors, liking yellow most, and then pale
pink. When desirous of examining an object, she had considerable
difficulty in directing her eye to it and finding out its
position, moving her hand as well as her eye in various
directions, as a person when blindfolded or in the dark gropes
with his hands for what he wishes to touch. She also
distinguished a large from a small object when they were both
held up before her for comparison. She said she saw different
forms in various objects which were shown to her. On asking what
she meant by different forms, such as long, round, and square,
and desiring her to draw with her finger these forms on her
other hand, and then presenting to her eye the respective forms,
she pointed to them exactly; she not only distinguished small
from large objects, but knew what was meant by above and below.
A figure, drawn with ink, was placed before her eye, having one
end broad and the other narrow, and she saw the positions as
they really were, and not inverted.

"She could also perceive motions, for, when a glass of water was
placed on the table before her, on approaching her hand near it,
it was moved quickly to a greater distance, upon which she
immediately said: 'You move it; you take it away.'

"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 colors,
and two days after the colored papers had been shown to her, on
coming into a room the color 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 a pond, 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 colors of which she named correctly.

"She had as yet acquired, by the use