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10 ON PERSPECTIVE. [iiECT. ft.
him, but we found afterwards we were mistaken j
for about two months after he was couched, he dis-
covered 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 representee ;
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 he asked
which was the lyhig sense, feeling or seeing ?—Being
shewn 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 should be expressed in so
little room ? saying, it should have seemed as im-
possible to him as to put a bushel of any thing into
a pint."
At first he could bear but a very small portion of
light, and every object appeared to him very large
(like him who saw men. walking, as large as trees);
but by degrees he acquired juster perceptions. Ima-
gine then, what must have been his sensations when
taken to Epsom he surveyed the distant prospect!
Mr. Chesseldem relates other instances of a
similar nature; and he observes of all, that they
were mightily perplexed how to move their eyes after
the operation (not having had occasion to move them
during their blindness); and that it was by little and
little, by degrees, and after a time, they were able
to direct their eyes to any object they wished to
inspect.' -
Such
him, but we found afterwards we were mistaken j
for about two months after he was couched, he dis-
covered 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 representee ;
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 he asked
which was the lyhig sense, feeling or seeing ?—Being
shewn 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 should be expressed in so
little room ? saying, it should have seemed as im-
possible to him as to put a bushel of any thing into
a pint."
At first he could bear but a very small portion of
light, and every object appeared to him very large
(like him who saw men. walking, as large as trees);
but by degrees he acquired juster perceptions. Ima-
gine then, what must have been his sensations when
taken to Epsom he surveyed the distant prospect!
Mr. Chesseldem relates other instances of a
similar nature; and he observes of all, that they
were mightily perplexed how to move their eyes after
the operation (not having had occasion to move them
during their blindness); and that it was by little and
little, by degrees, and after a time, they were able
to direct their eyes to any object they wished to
inspect.' -
Such