or THE EXTERNAL SENSES. 2QJ

colors; and he muft have known that tliofe colorshad home fort of connexion with the tangible ob-je£ls which he had been accuftomed to feel. Buthad he emerged from total blindnels, he couldhave learnt this connexion only from a very Ion?courfe of obfervation and experience. How littlethis advantage availed him, however, we maylearn partly from the palfages of Mr. Chefelden’snarrative, already quoted, and Bill more from thefollowing:

“ When he firft faw,” fays that ingenious ope-“ rator, “ he was fo far from making anyjudge-<£ ment about diftances, that he thought all ob-“ jefls whatever touched his eyes (as he expref-“ fed it) as what he felt did his lkin; and thought“ no objects fo agreeable as thofe which Were“ fmooth and regular, though he could form no“ judgment of their fliape, or guefs what it was“ in any object that was pleafmg to him. He“ knew not the lhape of any thing, nor any one“ thing from another, however different in lhape“ or magnitude; but upon being told what things“ were, whofe form he before knew from feeling,“ he would carefully obferve, that he might know“ them again; but’ having too many objects to“ learn at once, he forgot many of them; and“ (as he faid) at firft learned to know, and again“ forgot a thoufand things in a day. One parti-“ cular only (though it may appear trifling) I“ will relate: Having often forgot which was the“ cat, and which the dog, he was afhamed to afk;“ but catching the cat (which he knew by feeling)