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was crooked ; said it did not lay flat on the paper, that the
crown was downward ; that it was not a brass counter;
does not think it is the shadow of the half-guinea, which
makes her know it to be crooked.
13th.—Declared by feeling on the plain glass, at the dis-
tance of three or four inches, that two substances below
were red and white rose-leaf. Being asked if it was not
red and white paper or cloth, replied no, it is a rose-leaf.
14th.—Again she distinguished by the feel, the difference
between stone and glass ear-rings, seals, broaches, &c.;
and pointed out one glass seal, which was supposed to be
crystal, being tried by a file, it proved to be glass. She
named the colours of all the different articles. She says,
stone feels more solid than glass, more firm.
15th.—Could not discover colours by the tongue ; but
closing between her lips, the red, yellow, blue and white
petals of flowers, she told each accurately.
16th.—She told the prismatic colours as accurately as
on the preceding day, whether cast on the back, or the palm
of the hand ; said she perceived something on the hand ;
observed when it moved, and when it was stationary. Being
bid to move her fingers, she exclaimed oh, it is the shadow
of my own fingers, which was the fact. i
17th.—Uncovering her eyes, we cast the most brilliant
piismatic colours upon her eyes, which she received firmly,
without either winking, or shewing any signs that she was
aw'are of it. The most rapid vibrations of the same light,
Aid not produce the smallest effect; her eyes remained
equally firm and motionless. When the prismatic spectrum
was thrown upon her mouth and cheeks, she perceived that
there were colours on her face, but could not describe them
so easily, or so accurately, as when they wrere thrown on her
hands.
18th.—She distinctly felt, through a plain glass, at the
distance of four inches, the prismatic colours thrown upon a
white paper.
was crooked ; said it did not lay flat on the paper, that the
crown was downward ; that it was not a brass counter;
does not think it is the shadow of the half-guinea, which
makes her know it to be crooked.
13th.—Declared by feeling on the plain glass, at the dis-
tance of three or four inches, that two substances below
were red and white rose-leaf. Being asked if it was not
red and white paper or cloth, replied no, it is a rose-leaf.
14th.—Again she distinguished by the feel, the difference
between stone and glass ear-rings, seals, broaches, &c.;
and pointed out one glass seal, which was supposed to be
crystal, being tried by a file, it proved to be glass. She
named the colours of all the different articles. She says,
stone feels more solid than glass, more firm.
15th.—Could not discover colours by the tongue ; but
closing between her lips, the red, yellow, blue and white
petals of flowers, she told each accurately.
16th.—She told the prismatic colours as accurately as
on the preceding day, whether cast on the back, or the palm
of the hand ; said she perceived something on the hand ;
observed when it moved, and when it was stationary. Being
bid to move her fingers, she exclaimed oh, it is the shadow
of my own fingers, which was the fact. i
17th.—Uncovering her eyes, we cast the most brilliant
piismatic colours upon her eyes, which she received firmly,
without either winking, or shewing any signs that she was
aw'are of it. The most rapid vibrations of the same light,
Aid not produce the smallest effect; her eyes remained
equally firm and motionless. When the prismatic spectrum
was thrown upon her mouth and cheeks, she perceived that
there were colours on her face, but could not describe them
so easily, or so accurately, as when they wrere thrown on her
hands.
18th.—She distinctly felt, through a plain glass, at the
distance of four inches, the prismatic colours thrown upon a
white paper.