“I saw yesterday a young lady who has been frequently magnetized, and who, on my visit, presented some very remarkable circumstances. After a fit of indigestion she fell into the ecstatic state, in which she continued when I saw her. Her skin was perfectly insensible, and her eyes were open like animals’ in whom the _fifth pair_ of nerves has been divided. She could perceive light, knew the difference between day and night for instance, but she could see and distinguish nothing else. She could not speak, but by signs expressed that her intellect was unusually active. But the most remarkable of the phenomena she presented was a singular _exaltation of the sense of hearing_. So extraordinarily delicate had this become, that she distinctly perceived sounds inaudible to myself and several other persons.” Carus, unmindful of the existence of a state of abstract reverie resembling sleep, records the case of a young ecclesiastic, who composed sermons in a state of slumber, correcting and adding to them with _peculiar care_. And this is the deduction: that the sense of vision seemed to be _transferred to the fingers_, as the eyes were perfectly blinded to the writing paper. His eyes, when he sat for his portrait, should have been painted at the tips of his fingers. James Mitchell, congenitally deaf and blind, discriminated his friends from strangers, and even formed a fair estimate of character, by the smell of the parties. And there was a deaf woman (writes Le Cat) who could read, and even tell the difference of languages, from the _silent_ motion of the _lip_. From these very curious illustrations we may confess that these lines in Hudibras are no fiction: ——“Communities of senses To chop and change intelligences, As Rosicrucian virtuosis Can see with ears and hear with noses.” For so strange are the synonymes of the senses, that the blind will express their notion of _colour_ by _sound_; the tint of scarlet is like the sound of a trumpet. From this hint, probably, St. Amand, in the “Pilgrims of the Rhine,” speaks of a _visible music_. IDA. Do we not perceive, also, something of this acuteness in the sense of touch under certain other conditions? In the story of Caspar Hauser, whether it be romance or reality, we read the following illustration of the effect of _mineral_ traction: